Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sonny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sonny” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sonny” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sonny” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sonny” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sonny” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sonny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sonny” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 -100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 -100%
1911 14 0.00002173 14 -100%
1912 18 0.000018217 18 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 18 0.000012709 18 -100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 -100%
1916 29 0.000014992 29 -100%
1917 22 0.000010963 22 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 28 0.000013269 28 -100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 -100%
1921 28 0.000011994 28 -100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 -100%
1923 28 0.000012161 28 -100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 -100%
1925 35 0.000015 35 -100%
1926 23 0.000010018 23 -100%
1927 52 0.00002242 52 -100%
1928 59 0.000026095 59 -100%
1929 76 0.000034669 76 -100%
1930 92 0.00004138 92 -100%
1931 67 0.000031838 67 -100%
1932 84 0.000039786 84 -100%
1933 105 0.000052515 105 -100%
1934 133 0.00006404 133 -100%
1935 147 0.000070338 147 -100%
1936 119 0.000057278 119 -100%
1937 124 0.000058198 124 -100%
1938 116 0.000052428 116 -100%
1939 97 0.000044022 97 -100%
1940 111 0.000048205 111 -100%
1941 98 0.000040223 98 -100%
1942 123 0.000045025 6 117 -90%
1943 127 0.000044995 127 -100%
1944 136 0.000050556 136 -100%
1945 99 0.000037318 99 -100%
1946 129 0.000040372 129 -100%
1947 141 0.000039141 141 -100%
1948 124 0.000035916 124 -100%
1949 119 0.000034149 119 -100%
1950 120 0.000034253 120 -100%
1951 112 0.000030404 112 -100%
1952 127 0.000033439 5 122 -92%
1953 129 0.000033475 129 -100%
1954 135 0.000033914 7 128 -90%
1955 130 0.000032378 5 125 -92%
1956 139 0.000033713 139 -100%
1957 157 0.000037362 7 150 -91%
1958 168 0.00004064 168 -100%
1959 116 0.000027898 116 -100%
1960 150 0.000036111 5 145 -93%
1961 139 0.000033556 139 -100%
1962 130 0.000032215 5 125 -92%
1963 129 0.000032591 129 -100%
1964 134 0.000034469 134 -100%
1965 123 0.000033927 123 -100%
1966 120 0.000034526 120 -100%
1967 153 0.000045068 153 -100%
1968 176 0.000052095 7 169 -92%
1969 176 0.000050643 176 -100%
1970 192 0.000053237 192 -100%
1971 218 0.000063513 12 206 -89%
1972 269 0.000085587 6 263 -96%
1973 282 0.000093474 8 274 -94%
1974 281 0.000092434 281 -100%
1975 345 0.000114261 9 336 -95%
1976 286 0.000094256 12 274 -92%
1977 215 0.000067685 5 210 -95%
1978 268 0.00008444 7 261 -95%
1979 231 0.000069432 10 221 -91%
1980 235 0.000068225 14 221 -88%
1981 255 0.000073713 21 234 -84%
1982 216 0.000061574 7 209 -94%
1983 177 0.000051107 10 167 -89%
1984 204 0.000058474 7 197 -93%
1985 208 0.000058278 9 199 -91%
1986 280 0.000078716 7 273 -95%
1987 239 0.000066286 13 226 -89%
1988 295 0.000079837 21 274 -86%
1989 300 0.000078035 12 288 -92%
1990 254 0.000064263 13 241 -90%
1991 248 0.000063667 11 237 -91%
1992 199 0.000051806 10 189 -90%
1993 205 0.000054373 15 190 -85%
1994 167 0.000044921 11 156 -87%
1995 193 0.000052701 8 185 -92%
1996 164 0.000044966 11 153 -87%
1997 173 0.000047714 17 156 -80%
1998 181 0.000049209 15 166 -83%
1999 177 0.000047917 12 165 -86%
2000 194 0.000051324 11 183 -89%
2001 205 0.000054763 9 196 -91%
2002 220 0.00005885 11 209 -90%
2003 240 0.000063119 10 230 -92%
2004 222 0.000058101 10 212 -91%
2005 250 0.000065022 9 241 -93%
2006 237 0.000059906 12 225 -90%
2007 249 0.000062286 9 240 -93%
2008 258 0.000065638 11 247 -91%
2009 260 0.00006806 12 248 -91%
2010 230 0.000062234 18 212 -84%
2011 254 0.000069441 22 232 -83%
2012 241 0.000065894 19 222 -84%
2013 265 0.000072689 13 252 -90%
2014 259 0.00006988 16 243 -88%
2015 301 0.000081331 26 275 -83%
2016 286 0.000077957 18 268 -87%
2017 333 0.000093116 30 303 -82%
2018 415 0.000118035 33 382 -84%
2019 454 0.000130801 37 417 -84%
2020 574 0.000171827 48 526 -83%
2021 641 0.0001892 53 588 -83%
2022 774 0.000228782 49 725 -87%
2023 994 0.000300194 66 928 -87%
2024 1096 0.000329277 62 1034 -89%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sonny:

  1. Sonnett
  2. Sonnette
  3. Sonni
  4. Sonnia
  5. Sonnie
  6. Sonny (this page)
  7. Sonnya
  8. Sonoma
  9. Sonora
  10. Sonovia
  11. Sonrisa