Sun — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sun

The Social Security Administration has registered 498 babies named Sun between 1939 and 2023, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sun currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Sun is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 490 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sun performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Sun shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 137 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sun in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sun 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 498 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.