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Sunday

#947 in 2025Girls' name

Sun + day

Sunday has been given to 3,317 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #947 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 273 recorded.

Babies named Sunday, 2025

1 in 12,100

Sunday over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sunday: meaning, origin, and history

Sun + day

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sunday means

Sunday means “sun + day”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,197 girls were recorded with the name Sunday between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 273 in 2025; its best national rank was #947 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,192 in 2020 to #947 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,277 in 2015 to #947 in 2025.

In the United States, 120 boys were recorded with the name Sunday between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,471 in 1916.

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.

How common is Sunday?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,100
273 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,890
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#947
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,418 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sunday 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 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,418 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sunday. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sundays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sunday was born before 1995 — so the typical Sunday is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,038
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (1,000).

Is Sunday 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
+113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,245
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,330
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
10.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (273)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#947
2025

Spellings of Sunday

Sunday is not the most common spelling — Sandy is, with 75.6% against Sunday's 3.5%.

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 Sunday is used

Across 2016–2025, Sunday was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 15,557 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,143
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 9,091
  4. 4Utah1 in 9,091
  5. 5Colorado1 in 10,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 11,111
  7. 7California1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 12,500

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.

Sunday around the world

Where Sunday 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #951
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2023
    #365
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sunday

People whose public names include Sunday, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sunday by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#947
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,245
Best rank ever
#947
2025
Peak year
2025
273 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,197
Count in 2025
273

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,471
1916
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Sunday

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

SunnieSunniSundusSundaeSunshineSunnyTuesdaySundraSunitaSundaiSunsetSuniSunnivaSundeeSunainaHolidaySunWednesdayAridaySunjaiSunisaShardayShadaySundi

Names with a curve like Sunday

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sunday, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlitaHoneyCamelliaKitRomyPiaMelodiOdetteGalaSunnieRosalinaAura

Sibling names for Sunday

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

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