Sonny

What Sonny means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Sonny yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sonny?

US: Rising: up from #822 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #97 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,137 boys got the name (#298 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 1,502 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 239 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 143 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (2.08 per 1,000 boys), HI (2.06 per 1,000 boys), RI (1.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Sonny is #298 in the US and #45 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 95.4% of US babies named Sonny were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sunny200 US · 69 E&W
• Senna14 US · 4 E&W
• Senay7 US · 8 E&W
• Sonni8 US · 4 E&W
• Sunni7 US
• Sanay6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Sonny

Boys

• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Ocean#717“sea”^*
• Aspen#920Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1990, with 8 babies
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*

For a sister

• Goldie#621From the word “gold”^*
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Opal#423Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,110 in 2015, #423 in 2025
• Ivory#378Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #378 vs #2,440 in 2025
• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sonny’s. Rank is US 2025.