Sonya

girls:

65.6k births since 1905

#489 (91st percentile)

boys:

182 births since 1962

#4404 (4th percentile)

overall:

65.8k births since 1905

#906 (88th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1905 2023 19052023

Key Statistics

Total Births
65,575
Peak Births
2,980
Peak Year
1967
First Recorded
1905
Peak Percentile
84.7%
Current Percentile
10.8%
Peak Rank
#114
Current Rank
#845
Female statistics
Total Births
182
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1971
First Recorded
1962
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#633
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sonya

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

Our model is 48.0% confident that Sonya is pronounced as SOH-nyuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-nyuh, at 28.0% confidence.

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SOH-nyuh (2 syllables)
Verified
48.0% confidence
S OW1 N Y AH0
SUH-nyuh (2 syllables)
16.0% confidence
S AH1 N Y AH0
SAW-nyuh (2 syllables)
8.0% confidence
S AO1 N Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SOH-nyah (2 syllables)
2 names 106.1k births
S OW1 N Y AA2

Names with this pronunciation:

SOH-nee-uh (3 syllables)
6 names 67.5k births
S OW1 N IY0 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 OW1 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.