Sundae
Sundae was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,387 among girls’ names; 404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sundae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sundae?
#9,387 among girls’ names, 2025
Sundae entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,387 in 2025.
22 babies in 1966, the peak
Sundae peaked in 1966, when 22 girls were given it, #2,653 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,387 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,315 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,229 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,102 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,900 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,345 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,175 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,278 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,421 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,614 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,239 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,861 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,246 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,264 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,170 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,840 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,572 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,584 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,138 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,277 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,621 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,667 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,584 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,510 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,066 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,131 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,720 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,897 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,878 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,840 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,187 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,813 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,790 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,825 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,126 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,927 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,421 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,349 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,454 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,581 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,653 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,172 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,676 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,499 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,304 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,917 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,673 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,552 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,120 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,188 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,943 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sundae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sundae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sundae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sundae, and how old are they?
An estimated 376 Americans named Sundae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 23 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 354 people named Sundae (354 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,406 babies since 1880, Sundae is the second most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 308 babies (3.6%), again the second most given.
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 Sundae
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 Sundae and names like it
- Compare Sundae and SundayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSundae peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sundae since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Sundae.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Sundae alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.