Sunny

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sunny: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sunny: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #431, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
71times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#431highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#2411
1998	#1697
1999	#3900
2000	#3247
2001	#2226
2002	#1658
2003	#2191
2004	#1383
2005	#2247
2006	#2509
2007	#2410
2008	#1815
2009	#1596
2010	#2235
2011	#2150
2012	#1991
2013	#2649
2014	#1702
2015	#2328
2016	#2547
2017	#1733
2018	#1393
2019	#1218
2020	#1397
2021	#1161
2022	#1023
2023	#1087
2024	#855

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #431 among girls in Scotland, #855 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sunny appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 930 births with the name.

Sunny across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sunny's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#755 (1996)	#552 (2024)	#552 (2024)	29 of 29	930 (1996–2024)	69 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#855 (2024)	#855 (2024)	29 of 29	438 (1996–2024)	43 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#635 (2018)	#635 (2018)	#829 (2025)	7 of 8	25 (2018–2025)	4 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#555 (2023)	#885 (2025)	4 of 5	15 (2021–2025)	6 (2023)

Sunny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sunny in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	94	4 of 10	24
2000s	284	10 of 10	28
2010s	278	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	274	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 55 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sunny appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #431 in Scotland in 2024.

Sunny's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#855	43	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#552	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1087	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#614	58	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1023	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#632	56	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1161	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#650	56	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1397	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#845	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1030	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#994	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#977	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#918	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#923	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#684	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#883	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#793	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#731	29	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#722	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#644	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#629	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#755	20	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #431, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sunnie · #541, 20y
Sunniva · #32, 66y
Sunshine · #2770, 13y
Sura · #4003, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y
Ash · #433, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kenna · #431, 26y
Mairi · #431, 26y
Abram · #432, 18y
Aleigha · #432, 26y

Sunny was ranked #431 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sunny and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sunny without appearing here.

Sunny moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1702 and #4684.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2509 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1596 and #4564.
Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2226 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #4137.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1815 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1596 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Sunny

Beau Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1805.
Mila Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #2701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2189.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1383 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2247 and #951.
Ida Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2770.

Moved the opposite way to Sunny

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Sunny

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sunny went from #2096 to #855 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #431 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sunny

Sunny at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sunny across 4 official records

Sunny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sunny appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sunny

Sunny and the names beside it

Sunny moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sunny

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Sunny at a glance

Sunny across 4 official records

Sunny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sunny appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sunny

Sunny and the names beside it

Sunny moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sunny

Moved the opposite way to Sunny

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