Sunya — girls' name
111 babies named Sunya in U.S. Social Security records since 1927, with the highest year being 1927. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Sunya was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Sunya in 1927 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sunya
The Social Security Administration has registered 111 babies named Sunya between 1927 and 2007, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sunya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sunya performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sunya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sunya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sunya 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 111 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.
Sunya at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sunya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1927
- Peak year (1927)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 81 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
111 total births across 81 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1927 with 14 births in a single year.
Sunya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 31 births that decade — 28% of Sunya's all-time total
Sunya decade highlights
- Peak decade 31 births
- Runner-up 26 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Sunya's strongest decade
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Sunya by state
Where Sunya concentrates geographically — total births since 1927
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 4.5% |
5 of 111 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.5% 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, 1927–2007 (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.