Meaning not yet researched.
Sunni: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 99 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,496 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,496 in 1976; #1,960 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Sunni in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,960 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #1,496.
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Sunni: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 99 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,496 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 123 (2024).
In 2025, 99 US girls were named Sunni, making it the 1,960th most common girls’ name of the year, down 286 places from #1,674 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 123 girls named Sunni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,496, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 123, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,979 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sunni in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 2,635 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 598 babies named Sunni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 710 US girls were named Sunni; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,235 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sunni ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #763 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sonny (23,356 babies since 1880), Sunny (17,697 babies since 1880), Sunnie (2,754 babies since 1880) and Suhani (980 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zuni 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zuni (31).
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 Sunni 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #763 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,193 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,602 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,895 | #3,738 |
| California | 10 | #2,073 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,125 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,960 | 7 | #10,541 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,674 | 11 | #7,695 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,981 | 5 | #13,927 |
| 2022 | 96 | #2,032 | 12 | #7,202 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,956 | 12 | #7,040 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,495 | 6 | #11,845 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,665 | 5 | #13,837 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,367 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,365 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,475 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,776 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,325 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,533 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,890 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,494 | 6 | #8,315 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,181 | 5 | #6,957 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,936 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,237 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,449 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,847 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,005 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,926 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,960 | — | — |
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).