Sunny
About 17,697 American babies have been named Sunny since 1900, most of them around 2024. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 389th. About 16,000 Sunnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sunny boys named Sunny
Girls and boys called Sunny
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 13,191 girls and 4,506 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 798 to 200.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 93 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,697
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 370th
- Rank in 2025
- 389th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 13,191 / 4,506
How old the living Sunnys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,697 babies given the name since 1900, about 16,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 8,200 of them are children and 860 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sunnys
- Sunny Leone (born 1981)American-Canadian actress, model and former pornographic actress
- Sunny Deol (born 1957)Indian actor and politician
- Sunny (born 1989)South Korean-American singer
- Sunny Lane (born 1980)American pornographic actress
- Sunny Mabrey (born 1975)American actress, model and comedian
- Sunny Dhinsa (born 1993)Canadian professional and amateur wrestler
- Sunny Murray (1936–2017)American jazz drummer
- Sunny Singh (born 1969)writer
People named Sunny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sunny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sunny is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), California (2.8×), Texas (1.9×), Oklahoma (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Sunny peaked:
Sunny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Sunny | 999 | 552nd |
| France boys | Sunny | 725 | 662nd |
| England and Wales girls | Sunny | 470 | 855th |
| France girls | Sunny | 145 | 3,312th |
| Scotland girls | Sunny | 51 | 429th |
| Scotland boys | Sunny | 47 | 435th |
| Switzerland girls | Sunny | 38 | 973rd |
| Ireland boys | Sunny | 25 | 635th |
| Ireland girls | Sunny | 15 | 555th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sunny: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Sunny | 30 | 0.002% | 830th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sunny | 7 | 0.002% | 759th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Sunny | 1 | 0.002% | 176th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Sunny by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 10 | 490th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 546th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Sunny among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Sunny | 17 | 22 |
| Finland girls | Sunny | 9 | 11 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sunny against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.