Sonja

girls:

39.4k births since 1906

#681 (88th percentile)

boys:

44 births since 1938

#4542 (1st percentile)

overall:

39.5k births since 1906

#1247 (84th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sonja".

1906 2023 19062023

Key Statistics

Total Births
39,415
Peak Births
1,339
Peak Year
1967
First Recorded
1906
Peak Percentile
71.5%
Current Percentile
6.2%
Peak Rank
#179
Current Rank
#888
Female statistics
Total Births
44
Peak Births
9
Peak Year
1973
First Recorded
1938
Peak Percentile
0.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#522
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sonja

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sonja. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.5% confident that Sonja is pronounced as SAH-nyuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SOH-nyah, at 15.0% confidence.

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SOH-nyah (2 syllables)
Verified
15.0% confidence
S OW1 N Y AA2
SOH-nyuh (2 syllables)
12.5% confidence
S OW1 N Y AH0
SAW-nyuh (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
S AO1 N Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Sonja. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Sonja, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SUH-nyuh (2 syllables)
6 names 68.2k births
S AH1 N Y AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AA1 N Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.