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Sona

#3,765 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sona has been given to 1,443 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #3,765 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Sona, 2025

1 in 82,900

Sona over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sona: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Armenian

What Sona means

Sona has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Sona

One of the source’s documented entries for Sona records a meaning of gold.

A separate documented entry treats Sona as a form of Suna. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Sona uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

Origin, language, and formation

Sona is used in English and Azerbaijani. Its origins include Armenian.

Sona comes through Armenian Սոնա.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Սոնա.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,443 girls were recorded with the name Sona between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,373 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,987 in 2020 to #3,765 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,810 in 2015 to #3,765 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sona?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,765
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sona was born before 1989 — so the typical Sona is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,253
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Sona rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+340
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,222
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,045
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (40)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,373
1936

Spellings of Sona

Sona is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 14.4% against Sona's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sona is used

Across 1910–2025, Sona was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 172,152 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sona around the world

Where Sona ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1928–2025
    #3,500
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1989–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sona by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,765
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,222
Best rank ever
#2,373
1936
Peak year
2025
40 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,443
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Sona

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sona

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