Sonita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sonita has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Sonita, 2012
1 in 523,000
Sonita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sonita?
Sonita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sonita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sonita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sonitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sonita was born before 1978 — so the typical Sonita is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 25.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 195
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Sonita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1974 (12)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sonita
Sonita is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 23.5% against Sonita'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.
Sonita around the world
Where Sonita 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 & Wales2000–2000#3,912in 2000
- France1985–2025#5,727in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
- South Australia2001–2007#803in 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.
Sonita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sonita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sonita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.