Sunni
#1,960 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sunni has been given to 2,635 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #1,960 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 123 recorded.
Babies named Sunni, 2025
1 in 33,500
Sunni 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sunni?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 33,500
- 99 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 16,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,960
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,212 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sunni 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 23,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sunni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sunnis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sunni was born before 1995 — so the typical Sunni is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 21.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,561
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (545).
Is Sunni 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
- −286
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +535
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,018
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.61×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 80.5%
- Peak was 2024 (123)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Sunni
Sunni is not the most common spelling — Sunny is, with 15.6% against Sunni's 3.0%.
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 Sunni is used
Across 2016–2025, Sunni was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 26,776 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 8,333
- 2Georgia1 in 14,286
- 3Texas1 in 14,286
- 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 7Florida1 in 33,333
- 8North Carolina1 in 33,333
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.
Sunni around the world
Where Sunni 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 & Wales1998–2024#4,193in 2024
- Canada2022–2022#2,577in 2022
- South Australia1977–1978#626in 1978
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sunni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sunni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Sunni
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sunni, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Sunni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.