Sony
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sony has been given to 326 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1988, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Sony, 2021
1 in 565,000
Sony 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sony over time
In 2021, Sony went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sony?
Sony had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sony sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sony. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sonys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sony was born before 1991 — so the typical Sony is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 287
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (92).
Is Sony 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
- —
- 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 1988 (16)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sony
Sony is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 21.6% against Sony'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 Sony is used
Across 1910–2025, Sony was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,563,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Sony has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sony around the world
Where Sony 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.
- France1965–2025#4,495in 2025
- Canada1991–1994#1,526in 1994
- South Australia1958–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sony by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Sony
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sony
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.