Sunni
Recorded 1949–2025 · United States
Sunni was most popular in 2024, when 134 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,934 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,405, with 106 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,635 people named Sunni.
Sunni over time
How old is the name Sunni?
Sunni first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1949, which makes it about 76 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 75 of the 77 years since.
How many people are named Sunni?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,635 American births named Sunni between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,558 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sunni in 2025?
106 American babies were named Sunni in 2025, ranking #3,405 that year.
Is Sunni getting more or less popular?
Sunni is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 104 births a year, against 34 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +211% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Sunni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sunni is a girl’s name — 97.4% of the 2,635 Americans given it were girls and 2.6% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 92% girls and 8% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sunni?
Roughly 2,558 Americans named Sunni are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 29 years old, and half are between 7 and 45. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sunni is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org