Sonnie — #4879 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sonnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 866 babies named Sonnie between 1893 and 2024, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sonnie currently holds the #4879 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Sonnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 723 additional births since 1938.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sonnie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Sonnie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sonnie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sonnie 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 866 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.