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Sunny

Girl's name · #390 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

79% girls · 21% boys — Sunny is also given to boys: 200 in 2025, about 21% in recent years. Sunny →

Popularity over time

Sunny reached its best rank, #370, in 2024 and ranked #390 in 2025. About 13,000 girls have carried it since 1912.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 38 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#536 in Scotland (2025) · #1,076 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,102 in Ireland (2025) · #2,544 in Switzerland (2025) · #574 in Canada (2024).

Famous Sunnys

• Sunny Leone — American-Canadian actress, model and former adult-film actress
• Sunny — South Korean-American singer
• Sunny Mabrey — American actress, model and comedian
• Sunny Singh — Indian author (born 1969)
• Sunny Johnson — American actress (1953–1984)

In stories & tradition

• Sunny Baudelaire — A Series of Unfortunate Events (novel series)
• Sunny Emmerich^it — Metal Gear (video game series)
• Sunny Nwazue — Akata Witch (novel)

What Sunnys become

Among 213 notable people named Sunny:

Entertainers appear 3.3× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sunny Leone, American-Canadian actress, model and former adult-film actress.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Sunnie (#1094) and Sunni (#1960), Sunny would rank around #277 with about 1,100 births last year — the newborns split about 71/20/9 across Sunny, Sunnie, and Sunni.

Similar names: Sunnie · Winter · Zuri · Dani · Malani · Shiloh

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