Sona — #4036 US girls' name
1,403 babies named Sona in U.S. Social Security records since 1923, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 77% of names given to girls today.
16% of everyone ever named Sona was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Sona in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sona
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,403 babies named Sona between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sona currently holds the #4036 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sona performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 222 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Sona shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 210 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sona in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sona in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,403 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sona at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sona popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1923
- Peak year (2024)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 102 years of records
Currently ranks #4036 among girls.
1,403 total births across 102 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 36 births in a single year.
Sona by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 222 births that decade — 16% of Sona's all-time total
Sona decade highlights
- Peak decade 222 births
- Runner-up 188 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Sona's strongest decade
222 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 16% of all-time use.
Sona by state
Where Sona concentrates geographically — total births since 1923
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 210 | 15.0% |
| #2 | New York | | 10 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 0.4% |
210 of 1,403 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 15.0% of nationwide
- New York 0.7% of nationwide
- Texas 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 15.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1923–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.