Sonder
#2,929 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sonder has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #2,929 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 43 recorded.
Babies named Sonder, 2025
1 in 77,100
Sonder 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sonder?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 39,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,929
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sonder 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sonder. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sonders were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sonder was born before 2024 — so the typical Sonder is around 1 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 122
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (122).
Is Sonder 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
- +1,373
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +6,504
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (43)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 49.4% average annual change
Spellings of Sonder
Sonder is not the most common spelling — Conner is, with 38.8% against Sonder's 0.08%.
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 Sonder is used
Across 1910–2025, Sonder was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sonder has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sonder by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sonder
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sonder
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.