Sundee — girls' name
282 babies named Sundee in U.S. Social Security records since 1951, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Sundee was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Sundee in 1968 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sundee
The Social Security Administration has registered 282 babies named Sundee between 1951 and 1985, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sundee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1985. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sundee performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sundee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sundee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sundee 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 282 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.
Sundee at a glance
Last recorded 1985Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sundee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–1951
- Peak year (1968)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1985.
282 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1968 with 23 births in a single year.
Sundee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 119 births that decade — 42% of Sundee's all-time total
Sundee decade highlights
- Peak decade 119 births
- Runner-up 118 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Sundee's strongest decade
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Sundee by state
Where Sundee concentrates geographically — total births since 1951
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.8% |
5 of 282 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1951–1985 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.