Suni
Suni was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,695 among girls’ names; 393 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Suni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Suni?
#5,695 among girls’ names, 2025
Suni rose from #18,796 in 2015 to #5,695 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 13.7 per million.
22 babies in 2025, the peak
Suni peaked in 2025, when 22 girls were given it, #5,695 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 15 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,695 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,552 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,302 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,305 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,073 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,233 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,346 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,796 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,240 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,506 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | #9,423 | 6.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,115 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,596 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,897 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,502 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,280 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,424 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,302 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,069 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,694 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,633 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,734 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,680 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,486 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,025 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,888 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,313 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,314 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,209 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,818 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,913 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,812 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,156 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,106 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,305 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,176 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,542 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,456 | 7.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,911 | 3.7 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,306 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,918 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,003 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,782 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Suni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Suni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Suni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Suni, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Suni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 18 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 705 people named Suni (634 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Suni?
Suni is a less common spelling of Sunny: SSA has recorded 393 Suni and 17,697 Sunny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,718 babies since 1880, Suni is the fifth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 1,385 babies (1.6%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Suni
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kristel | 2,992 |
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 Suni and names like it
- Compare Suni and SunnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSuni peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Suni.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Suni alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.