Sunday
Sunday was given to 273 girls in 2025, #947 among girls’ names; 3,317 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Sunday and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 4 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sunday by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sunday?
#947 among girls’ names, 2025
Sunday rose from #5,277 in 2015 to #947 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.01 to 0.17 per 1,000.
290 babies in 2025, the peak
Sunday peaked in 2025, when 290 babies were given it (273 girls, #947 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 236 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 273 | #947 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 236 | #1,060 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 178 | #1,290 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,708 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,870 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,192 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,851 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,391 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,837 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,234 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,277 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,644 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,907 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,982 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,654 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,883 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,072 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,325 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,782 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,188 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,035 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,850 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,266 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,769 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,272 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,230 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,056 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,265 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,347 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,651 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,980 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,978 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,509 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,951 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,056 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,283 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,313 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,184 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,783 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,160 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,148 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,838 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,788 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,508 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,816 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,019 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,882 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,683 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,605 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 64 | #1,380 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 109 | #985 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,686 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,943 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,154 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,239 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,055 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,326 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,723 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,223 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,699 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,374 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,180 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,983 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sunday a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,317 Americans recorded as Sunday, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 273 girls and 17 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sunday: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sunday, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,317 Americans ever recorded as Sunday. The median Sunday alive today is 19 years old; half are between 4 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 3,258 people named Sunday (1,914 women and girls, 1,344 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 411 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 746 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 289 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sunday born?
The states with the most babies named Sunday are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 34 | #875 | 0.6× |
| California | 33 | #1,023 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 16 | #995 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 15 | #547 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #825 | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #704 | 0.4× |
| New York | 9 | #1,514 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,026 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 9 | #744 | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #477 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sunday with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,406 babies since 1880, Sunday is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 290 of their 308 babies (94%), again the 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 Sunday
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Alita | 2,608 |
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 Sunday and names like it
- Compare Sunday and SundaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSunday peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sunday since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sunday.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sunday alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.