Sukanya

Girls' name

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Sukanya has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2005, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Sukanya, 2007

1 in 800,000

Sukanya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sukanya: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sukanya means

Sukanya means “good”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sukanya is used in Hinduism, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Thai.

Another recorded pronunciation is /su˨˩.kan˧.ˈjaː˧/ for Sukanya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Sukanya between 1997 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,971 in 2005.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sukanya?

Sukanya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007: 1 in 800,000; 5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only: 1 in 384,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 554,207 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sukanya 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sukanya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sukanyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sukanya was born before 2004 — so the typical Sukanya is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 75; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Sukanya 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 2005 (21)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 92.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,971; 2005

Spellings of Sukanya

Sukanya is not the most common spelling — Susana is, with 34.5% against Sukanya's 0.12%.

Susana34.5%20,999
Susanna32.9%19,987
Suzanna15.9%9,648
Shanya3.5%2,156
Sumaya3.5%2,142
Sanya3.2%1,941
Suzana2.0%1,224
Suraya1.2%745

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 Sukanya is used

Across 1910–2025, Sukanya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 625,320 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Sukanya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sukanya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,971; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 21 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2007
All-time count: 75
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sukanya

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

Sukayna Sukaina Sukhman Varenya Bitanya Visenya Sukhmani Ifunanya Aranya Sukari Avanya Shivanya Lavanya Lalanya Milanya Rithanya Nakenya Pragnya Satonya Jesenya Letanya Laconya Tawanya Casonya

Sibling names for Sukanya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

Explore around Sukanya

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