girls:
342 births since 1972
#5374 (6th percentile)
overall:
342 births since 1972
#7397 (4th percentile)
The name Sonnet is the #7,397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 342 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,374 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 342 births since 1972.
Sonnet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (first recorded for girls in 1972). Birth data for Sonnet is available in 37 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Sonnet reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sonnet ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 82.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sonnet".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sonnet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Sonnet is pronounced as SAH-nuht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-niht, at 40.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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