Sonni — #10408 US unisex name
525 babies named Sonni in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 41% of names given to girls today.
30% of everyone ever named Sonni was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Sonni in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sonni
The Social Security Administration has registered 525 babies named Sonni between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sonni currently holds the #10408 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Sonni is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 56 additional births since 2005.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sonni performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sonni shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sonni in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sonni 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 525 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.
Sonni at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Sonni popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1966
- Peak year (1989)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 59 years of records
Currently ranks #10408 among girls.
525 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 33 births in a single year.
Sonni popularity over time — boys
56 total births recorded since 2005 (Sonni as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Sonni accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sonni by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 157 births that decade — 30% of Sonni's all-time total
Sonni decade highlights
- Peak decade 157 births
- Runner-up 105 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sonni's strongest decade
157 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Sonni by state
Where Sonni concentrates geographically — total births since 1966
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 1.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 5 | 1.0% |
5 of 525 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 1.0% of nationwide
- Texas 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 1.0% 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, 1966–2024 (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.