girls:
110 births since 1937
#5606 (2nd percentile)
overall:
110 births since 1937
#7629 (1st percentile)
The name Sonnia is the #7,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 110 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,606 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 1937.
Sonnia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (first recorded for girls in 1937). Birth data for Sonnia is available in 16 out of the 49 years between 1937 and 1985. 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, Sonnia reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #768) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sonnia".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Sonnia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Sonnia is pronounced as SAH-nee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-nyuh, at 29.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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