girls:
2.7k births since 1924
#3344 (41st percentile)
boys:
93 births since 1916
#4493 (2nd percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1916
#5119 (34th percentile)
The name Sunday is the #5,119 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,781 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 33.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,344 (41.5% percentile) for all time with 2,688 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,493 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 93 births since 1916.
Sunday first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Sunday is available in 90 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 15 years for boys). 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.
The name Sunday has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.7% of babies named Sunday were girls. Interestingly, until around 1925, the name was more popular for boys (77.8% boys from 1916 to 1924), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.4% girls from 1925 to 2023).
For girls, Sunday reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 18.3% percentile (ranked #774) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 102 births per million (ranked 18.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sunday is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #774 (18.3% percentile) with 102 births per million.
For boys, Sunday reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #906) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sunday ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 72.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sunday".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sunday. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.6% confident that Sunday is pronounced as SUHN-day, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SUHN-dee, at 20.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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