Sunni
Sunni was given to 99 girls in 2025, #1,960 among girls’ names; 2,635 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Sunni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 7 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sunni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sunni?
#1,960 among girls’ names, 2025
Sunni rose from #3,978 in 2015 to #1,960 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.3 to 61.6 per million.
134 babies in 2024, the peak
Sunni peaked in 2024, when 134 babies were given it (123 girls, #1,674 among girls’ names). The 106 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,960 | 61.6 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,674 | 75.9 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,981 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 96 | #2,032 | 58.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,956 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,495 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,781 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,664 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,366 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,831 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,978 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,756 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,148 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,588 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,560 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,955 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,364 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,471 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,772 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,323 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,236 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,529 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,922 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,886 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,816 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,257 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,950 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,615 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,613 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,552 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,198 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,995 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,406 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,489 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,082 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,061 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,293 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,005 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,520 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,929 | 33.8 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,695 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,183 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,303 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,867 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,806 | 37.2 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,673 | 41.6 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,181 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,465 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,374 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,496 | 47.8 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,874 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,603 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,105 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,734 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,057 | 24.6 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,299 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,637 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,294 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,859 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,218 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,785 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,935 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,236 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,448 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,892 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,003 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,846 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,004 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,881 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,693 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,608 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,925 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,439 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,689 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,958 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sunni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,635 Americans recorded as Sunni, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 99 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sunni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sunni, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,635 Americans ever recorded as Sunni. The median Sunni alive today is 29 years old; half are between 7 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,946 people named Sunni (1,842 women and girls, 104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,995 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 96 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 498 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 664 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 423 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 867 |
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 Sunni born?
The states with the most babies named Sunni are Texas, California and Georgia, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,895 | 1.3× |
| California | 10 | #2,073 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,193 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,125 | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #763 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,602 | 0.2× |
Where Sunni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sunni is most over-represented in Texas: since 1949 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Sunni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sunni?
Sunni is a less common spelling of Sunny: SSA has recorded 2,635 Sunni and 17,697 Sunny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,067 babies since 1880, Sunni is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 106 of their 1,385 babies (7.7%), again the third 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 Sunni
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 Sunni and names like it
- Compare Sunni and SunnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSunni peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sunni since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Sunni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sunni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.