Sona
Sona was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,765 among girls’ names; 1,443 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Sona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 11 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sona is “a female given name from Armenian.”
Borrowed from Armenian Սոնա (Sona).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sona?
#3,765 among girls’ names, 2025
Sona rose from #5,810 in 2015 to #3,765 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 24.9 per million.
40 babies in 2025, the peak
Sona peaked in 2025, when 40 girls were given it, #3,765 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 36 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,765 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,105 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,347 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,363 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,493 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,987 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,642 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,128 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,501 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,114 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,810 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,259 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,224 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,870 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,645 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,870 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,515 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,321 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,463 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,306 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,446 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,526 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,389 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,882 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,267 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,968 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,173 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,051 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,700 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,428 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,663 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,027 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,991 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,451 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,361 | 6.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,113 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,037 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,286 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,171 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,621 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,499 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,854 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,492 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,984 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,946 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,374 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,894 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,484 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,654 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,329 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,013 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,549 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,496 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,923 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,844 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,149 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,042 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,575 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,714 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,816 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,811 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,165 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,901 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,201 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,409 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,976 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,842 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,896 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,872 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,204 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,136 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,922 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,859 | 3.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,183 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,669 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,193 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,980 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,013 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,149 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,694 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,219 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,286 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,710 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,205 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,373 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,706 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,906 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,086 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,860 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,802 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,994 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,899 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,709 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,225 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,525 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,978 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,615 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sona, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,443 Americans ever recorded as Sona. The median Sona alive today is 28 years old; half are between 11 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 2,857 people named Sona (2,754 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 146 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 228 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 276 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 365 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sona born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,825 | 1.4× |
Where Sona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sona is most over-represented in California: since 1923 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sona with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 136,293 babies since 1880, Sona is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 341 babies (12%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sona and names like it
- Compare Sona and SoniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSona peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sona since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sona.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sona alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.