Sunny

“Diminutive of South Asian names such as Sunil or Sunita” — English/South Asian origin

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

Sunny reached its best rank, #370, in 2024 and ranked #390 in 2025. About 13,000 girls have carried it since 1912. About 79% of babies named Sunny in recent years have been girls. 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.

Around the world: about 1 in 2,900 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 3,000 girls in Scotland (2025) · about 1 in 7,000 girls in Ireland (2025).

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

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 — writer
Sunny Johnson — American actress (1953-1984)

In stories & tradition

Sunny Baudelaire — A Series of Unfortunate Events · Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Sunny Emmerich — Metal Gear
Sunny Nwazue — character

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.

Similar names: Sunnie · Winter · Zuri · Dani · Kalani · Milani

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