Sunday

What Sunday means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #5,127 in 2015, #946 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sunday?

US: Rising: up from #5127 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 273 girls got the name (#946 that year). First in the US records in 1924.

How common

• About 1 in 5,887 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,845 baby girls in England and Wales 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 OK (0.61 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.54 per 1,000 girls), KY (0.46 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Sunday is #946 in the US and #951 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.1% of US babies named Sunday were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sandy55 US · 7 E&W
• Sundae11 US
• Sindy10 US
• Sundai7 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 Sunday

Girls

• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Elowyn#299Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,619 in 2015, #299 in 2025
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025

For a brother

• Nico#174Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sunday’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.