Sonny

girls:

912 births since 1942

#4804 (16th percentile)

boys:

20.1k births since 1888

#814 (82nd percentile)

overall:

21.1k births since 1888

#1760 (77th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1888 2023 18882023

Key Statistics

Total Births
912
Peak Births
66
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1942
Peak Percentile
6.4%
Current Percentile
6.4%
Peak Rank
#620
Current Rank
#886
Female statistics
Total Births
20,143
Peak Births
924
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1888
Peak Percentile
63.4%
Current Percentile
63.4%
Peak Rank
#218
Current Rank
#334
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sonny

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sonny. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 79.1% confident that Sonny is pronounced as SUH-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-nee, at 20.9% confidence.

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79.1%
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20.9%
SAH-nee (2 syllables)
20.9% confidence
S AA1 N IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SOO-nee (2 syllables)
3 names 2.4k births
S UH1 N IY0
SOH-nee (2 syllables)
6 names 1.3k births
S OW1 N IY0

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 AH1 N IY0) 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.