Sony — boys' name

What the Data Says About Sony

The Social Security Administration has registered 287 babies named Sony between 1974 and 2021, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sony currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Sony is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 39 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sony performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sony shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sony in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sony 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 287 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.