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How popular is “Sunday” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sunday” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sunday” 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 “Sunday” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sunday” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sunday” 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
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 100%
1947 29 0.00000805 29 100%
1948 23 0.000006662 23 100%
1949 22 0.000006313 22 100%
1950 19 0.000005423 19 100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 100%
1953 26 0.000006747 26 100%
1954 31 0.000007788 31 100%
1955 28 0.000006974 28 100%
1956 25 0.000006063 25 100%
1957 24 0.000005711 24 100%
1958 22 0.000005322 22 100%
1959 27 0.000006494 27 100%
1960 48 0.000011556 48 100%
1961 44 0.000010622 44 100%
1962 31 0.000007682 31 100%
1963 28 0.000007074 28 100%
1964 38 0.000009775 38 100%
1965 45 0.000012412 45 100%
1966 109 0.000031361 109 100%
1967 64 0.000018852 64 100%
1968 52 0.000015392 52 100%
1969 52 0.000014963 52 100%
1970 42 0.000011646 42 100%
1971 59 0.000017189 59 100%
1972 44 0.000013999 44 100%
1973 45 0.000014916 45 100%
1974 57 0.00001875 57 100%
1975 44 0.000014572 44 100%
1976 52 0.000017137 52 100%
1977 35 0.000011018 35 100%
1978 51 0.000016069 45 6 76%
1979 37 0.000011121 32 5 73%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 100%
1982 28 0.000007982 28 100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 11 5 38%
1994 13 0.000003497 8 5 23%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 100%
1996 21 0.000005758 15 6 43%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 100%
2009 29 0.000007591 29 100%
2010 40 0.000010823 40 100%
2011 48 0.000013123 43 5 79%
2012 39 0.000010663 39 100%
2013 39 0.000010698 39 100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 100%
2016 35 0.00000954 35 100%
2017 45 0.000012583 40 5 78%
2018 52 0.00001479 47 5 81%
2019 65 0.000018727 59 6 82%
2020 83 0.000024846 83 100%
2021 114 0.000033649 107 7 88%
2022 130 0.000038426 123 7 89%
2023 188 0.000056777 178 10 89%
2024 241 0.000072405 232 9 93%

Explore other names

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  8. Sundee
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  10. Sundi
  11. Sundiata