Sunny — #372 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sunny

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,379 babies named Sunny between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sunny currently holds the #372 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 837 babies received it in a single year. Sunny is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,302 additional births since 1900.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sunny performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 3,013 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sunny shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,907 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sunny in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sunny 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 12,379 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.