Sonali
#5,379 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sonali has been given to 1,360 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #5,379 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Sonali, 2025
1 in 138,000
Sonali over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sonali?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,379
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sonali sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sonali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sonalis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sonali was born before 2002 — so the typical Sonali is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,360
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (410).
Is Sonali 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
- +990
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −848
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,848
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.41×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2000 (60)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sonali
Sonali is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 21.9% against Sonali's 5.4%.
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 Sonali is used
Across 1910–2025, Sonali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 175,491 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 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. Sonali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sonali around the world
Where Sonali 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 & Wales1996–2016#5,785in 2016
- France1998–2025#7,276in 2025
- Canada1995–2016#2,808in 2016
- South Australia1984–2008#796in 2008
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.
Sonali by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sonali
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sonali
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.