girls:
2.2k births since 1915
#3636 (36th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1919
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1915
#5511 (29th percentile)
The name Sunnie is the #5,511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,292 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 28.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,636 (36.4% percentile) for all time with 2,248 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1919.
Sunnie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1919 for boys). Birth data for Sunnie is available in 88 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (86 years for girls and 7 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 Sunnie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 92.8% of babies named Sunnie were girls.
For girls, Sunnie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #823) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 74 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2015, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Sunnie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #823 (13.1% percentile) with 74 births per million.
For boys, Sunnie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #906) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sunnie ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 92.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sunnie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sunnie is pronounced as SUH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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