Meaning not yet researched.
Sonya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #114 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #114 in 1967; #1,939 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sonya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,939 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #114.
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Sonya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #114 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 2,980 (1967).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Sonya, making it the 1,939th most common girls’ name of the year, down 15 places from #1,924 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 104 girls named Sonya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #114, reached in 1967. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,980. For comparison, it was #1,414 in 2015 and #587 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sonya in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 65,954 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 22,351 babies named Sonya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,128 US girls were named Sonya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sonya ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #897 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sonia (67,026 babies since 1880), Sonja (39,557 babies since 1880), Sanya (1,941 babies since 1880) and Sonny (23,356 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Sonya 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 6 | #897 | #1,020 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #913 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,534 | #1,622 |
| California | 10 | #2,071 | #1,809 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,371 | #2,186 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2015 | 164 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2013 | 190 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 2012 | 195 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2009 | 221 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2008 | 201 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2007 | 223 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 2006 | 255 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2004 | 222 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 2003 | 238 | #976 | — | — |
| 2002 | 248 | #907 | — | — |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2000 | 247 | #892 | — | — |
| 1999 | 278 | #790 | — | — |
| 1998 | 275 | #783 | — | — |
| 1997 | 297 | #722 | — | — |
| 1996 | 289 | #728 | — | — |
| 1995 | 310 | #689 | — | — |
| 1994 | 306 | #687 | — | — |
| 1993 | 380 | #605 | — | — |
| 1992 | 386 | #592 | — | — |
| 1991 | 394 | #585 | — | — |
| 1990 | 470 | #513 | — | — |
| 1989 | 525 | #464 | — | — |
| 1988 | 632 | #379 | 5 | #8,341 |
| 1987 | 618 | #379 | 5 | #7,979 |
| 1986 | 735 | #329 | — | — |
| 1985 | 797 | #303 | — | — |
| 1984 | 855 | #283 | — | — |
| 1983 | 917 | #261 | 5 | #7,188 |
| 1982 | 1,008 | #249 | 6 | #6,291 |
| 1981 | 1,135 | #226 | 6 | #6,147 |
| 1980 | 1,206 | #215 | 5 | #7,161 |
| 1979 | 1,287 | #206 | — | — |
| 1978 | 1,264 | #205 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,382 | #193 | 11 | #3,577 |
| 1976 | 1,520 | #166 | 5 | #6,378 |
| 1975 | 1,760 | #154 | 5 | #6,219 |
| 1974 | 2,111 | #132 | 12 | #3,102 |
| 1973 | 2,169 | #131 | 13 | #2,839 |
| 1972 | 2,506 | #122 | 9 | #3,575 |
| 1971 | 2,729 | #126 | 18 | #2,269 |
| 1970 | 2,740 | #131 | 15 | #2,496 |
| 1969 | 2,800 | #123 | 8 | #3,553 |
| 1968 | 2,817 | #117 | 11 | #2,711 |
| 1967 | 2,980 | #114 | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1966 | 2,866 | #126 | 8 | #3,211 |
| 1965 | 2,351 | #160 | 8 | #3,214 |
| 1964 | 1,999 | #187 | 8 | #3,249 |
| 1963 | 1,920 | #194 | 5 | #4,553 |
| 1962 | 1,741 | #208 | 7 | #3,587 |
| 1961 | 1,541 | #218 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,274 | #245 | — | — |
| 1959 | 778 | #339 | — | — |
| 1958 | 461 | #444 | — | — |
| 1957 | 396 | #475 | — | — |
| 1956 | 394 | #472 | — | — |
| 1955 | 340 | #500 | — | — |
| 1954 | 311 | #503 | — | — |
| 1953 | 311 | #493 | — | — |
| 1952 | 278 | #504 | — | — |
| 1951 | 189 | #634 | — | — |
| 1950 | 206 | #587 | — | — |
| 1949 | 163 | #655 | — | — |
| 1948 | 195 | #598 | — | — |
| 1947 | 164 | #652 | — | — |
| 1946 | 164 | #620 | — | — |
| 1945 | 165 | #571 | — | — |
| 1944 | 150 | #601 | — | — |
| 1943 | 170 | #579 | — | — |
| 1942 | 212 | #511 | — | — |
| 1941 | 179 | #520 | — | — |
| 1940 | 197 | #489 | — | — |
| 1939 | 211 | #463 | — | — |
| 1938 | 245 | #427 | — | — |
| 1937 | 229 | #430 | — | — |
| 1936 | 195 | #461 | — | — |
| 1935 | 190 | #463 | — | — |
| 1934 | 183 | #476 | — | — |
| 1933 | 140 | #538 | — | — |
| 1932 | 118 | #605 | — | — |
| 1931 | 72 | #805 | — | — |
| 1930 | 72 | #845 | — | — |
| 1929 | 53 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1928 | 83 | #790 | — | — |
| 1927 | 69 | #903 | — | — |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,195 | — | — |
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).