Soni
Soni was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,949 among girls’ names; 331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Soni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Soni?
#16,949 among girls’ names, 2025
Soni entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,949 in 2025.
15 babies in 1965, the peak
Soni peaked in 1965, when 15 girls were given it, #3,384 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,949 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,433 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,022 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,814 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,110 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,918 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,191 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,039 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,436 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,469 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 | #11,239 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,682 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,610 | 5.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,004 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,095 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,209 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,204 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,311 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,000 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,920 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,585 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,821 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,427 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,924 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,356 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,339 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,450 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,576 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,923 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,384 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,954 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,809 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,236 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,247 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,140 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,411 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,010 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,897 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,877 | 5.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,611 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,901 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Soni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 331 Americans recorded as Soni, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Soni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Soni, and how old are they?
An estimated 300 Americans named Soni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 38 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 921 people named Soni (786 women and girls, 135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Soni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 136,293 babies since 1880, Soni is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 341 babies (1.5%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Soni
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 Soni and names like it
- Compare Soni and SoniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSoni peaked in 1965.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Soni.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Soni alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.