Meaning not yet researched.
Sonia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 171 in 2025. Its best rank was #165 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #165 in 1976; #1,307 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sonia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,307 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #165.
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Sonia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 171 girls in 2025. Peak: #165 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 1,767 (1970).
In 2025, 171 US girls were named Sonia, making it the 1,307th most common girls’ name of the year, up 49 places from #1,356 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 169 girls named Sonia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #165, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,767, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,073 in 2015 and #442 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sonia in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 7 babies. In all, 67,026 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 15,302 babies named Sonia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,127 US girls were named Sonia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 267. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sonia ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #789 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sonya (65,954 babies since 1880), Sonja (39,557 babies since 1880) and Sonny (23,356 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sonnie, Sonni and Zonia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Aragonese, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Slavic and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sonnie (1,630), Sonni (600), Zonia (499), Suni (393), Soniya (347), Soni (331), Sony (326), Sonyia (194), Soniyah (112), Sunya (111), Sonnia (110), Zonie (77), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sonia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 12 | #789 | #851 |
| Colorado | 6 | #896 | #1,019 |
| Washington | 7 | #902 | — |
| California | 29 | #964 | #742 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #985 | #1,007 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,198 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,340 | #1,160 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,423 | #1,434 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,426 | #1,621 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,525 | #1,060 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,655 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,043 | #602 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2022 | 211 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2020 | 214 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 2019 | 217 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2018 | 240 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2017 | 267 | #980 | — | — |
| 2016 | 264 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2015 | 246 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 2014 | 283 | #950 | — | — |
| 2013 | 298 | #865 | — | — |
| 2012 | 328 | #822 | — | — |
| 2011 | 351 | #776 | — | — |
| 2010 | 392 | #721 | — | — |
| 2009 | 425 | #689 | — | — |
| 2008 | 423 | #709 | — | — |
| 2007 | 460 | #646 | — | — |
| 2006 | 481 | #609 | — | — |
| 2005 | 489 | #582 | — | — |
| 2004 | 516 | #552 | — | — |
| 2003 | 498 | #555 | — | — |
| 2002 | 520 | #530 | — | — |
| 2001 | 542 | #508 | — | — |
| 2000 | 532 | #507 | — | — |
| 1999 | 576 | #461 | — | — |
| 1998 | 635 | #418 | — | — |
| 1997 | 647 | #405 | — | — |
| 1996 | 637 | #409 | — | — |
| 1995 | 711 | #368 | — | — |
| 1994 | 711 | #364 | — | — |
| 1993 | 804 | #326 | 10 | #5,717 |
| 1992 | 812 | #331 | — | — |
| 1991 | 852 | #315 | 8 | #6,435 |
| 1990 | 868 | #314 | 11 | #4,945 |
| 1989 | 859 | #304 | 14 | #3,996 |
| 1988 | 784 | #316 | 11 | #4,415 |
| 1987 | 826 | #293 | 14 | #3,484 |
| 1986 | 858 | #287 | — | — |
| 1985 | 889 | #280 | 10 | #4,297 |
| 1984 | 928 | #264 | 8 | #4,903 |
| 1983 | 959 | #245 | 15 | #3,052 |
| 1982 | 1,048 | #241 | 13 | #3,460 |
| 1981 | 1,129 | #227 | 17 | #2,767 |
| 1980 | 1,252 | #209 | 9 | #4,454 |
| 1979 | 1,276 | #207 | 11 | #3,780 |
| 1978 | 1,265 | #203 | 11 | #3,578 |
| 1977 | 1,370 | #197 | 7 | #5,049 |
| 1976 | 1,554 | #165 | 11 | #3,452 |
| 1975 | 1,491 | #177 | 9 | #3,909 |
| 1974 | 1,577 | #172 | 11 | #3,296 |
| 1973 | 1,600 | #174 | 9 | #3,658 |
| 1972 | 1,612 | #176 | 9 | #3,574 |
| 1971 | 1,693 | #183 | 9 | #3,618 |
| 1970 | 1,767 | #186 | 10 | #3,250 |
| 1969 | 1,751 | #182 | 9 | #3,283 |
| 1968 | 1,566 | #199 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,495 | #206 | 5 | #4,460 |
| 1966 | 1,529 | #206 | 10 | #2,757 |
| 1965 | 1,254 | #244 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,220 | #254 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,169 | #256 | 6 | #3,991 |
| 1962 | 1,027 | #281 | — | — |
| 1961 | 983 | #294 | — | — |
| 1960 | 951 | #303 | 7 | #3,619 |
| 1959 | 917 | #300 | — | — |
| 1958 | 839 | #321 | — | — |
| 1957 | 747 | #333 | — | — |
| 1956 | 625 | #349 | 5 | #4,397 |
| 1955 | 591 | #358 | — | — |
| 1954 | 537 | #377 | — | — |
| 1953 | 438 | #410 | — | — |
| 1952 | 442 | #392 | — | — |
| 1951 | 396 | #420 | — | — |
| 1950 | 333 | #442 | — | — |
| 1949 | 313 | #452 | — | — |
| 1948 | 273 | #491 | — | — |
| 1947 | 280 | #489 | — | — |
| 1946 | 223 | #526 | — | — |
| 1945 | 233 | #471 | — | — |
| 1944 | 202 | #509 | — | — |
| 1943 | 262 | #458 | — | — |
| 1942 | 249 | #468 | — | — |
| 1941 | 237 | #446 | — | — |
| 1940 | 299 | #388 | — | — |
| 1939 | 282 | #399 | — | — |
| 1938 | 429 | #302 | — | — |
| 1937 | 346 | #338 | — | — |
| 1936 | 251 | #405 | — | — |
| 1935 | 226 | #428 | — | — |
| 1934 | 236 | #428 | — | — |
| 1933 | 212 | #442 | — | — |
| 1932 | 198 | #466 | — | — |
| 1931 | 164 | #509 | — | — |
| 1930 | 166 | #527 | — | — |
| 1929 | 169 | #526 | — | — |
| 1928 | 184 | #509 | — | — |
| 1927 | 218 | #474 | — | — |
| 1926 | 134 | #617 | — | — |
| 1925 | 108 | #711 | — | — |
| 1924 | 97 | #760 | — | — |
| 1923 | 86 | #790 | — | — |
| 1922 | 79 | #830 | — | — |
| 1921 | 79 | #836 | — | — |
| 1920 | 76 | #833 | — | — |
| 1919 | 96 | #716 | — | — |
| 1918 | 104 | #710 | — | — |
| 1917 | 79 | #783 | — | — |
| 1916 | 66 | #837 | — | — |
| 1915 | 61 | #838 | — | — |
| 1914 | 57 | #768 | — | — |
| 1913 | 45 | #793 | — | — |
| 1912 | 37 | #830 | — | — |
| 1911 | 23 | #925 | — | — |
| 1910 | 20 | #993 | — | — |
| 1909 | 23 | #866 | — | — |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,412 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).