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How popular is the name Sonny?

Births per year, rank history and how many Sonnies are alive today.

Sonny (male) is currently the 51st most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 1,022 babies given the name in 2024. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 15,000 babies have been named Sonny in England and Wales since 1996. Sonny is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sunny; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Sonny you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Sonnies born in England and Wales are between 6 and 19, and there are at least 16,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Sonny.

How many babies are named Sonny each year?

Includes all spellings: Sonny, Sunny. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Sonny spelling rank?

Where does the Sunny spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.