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Girl's name · #1307 in the US (2025) · Retro
Sonia's best rank, #165, came in 1976; it has stepped well back to #1307 today. Roughly 67,000 girls have been named Sonia since 1895.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 19 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#167 in Poland (2025) · #267 in Italy (2024) · #307 in Mexico (2024) · #421 in Norway (2025) · #558 in Sweden (2025) · #718 in Ireland (2025) · #823 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,051 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,086 in France (2025) · #1,148 in Belgium (2025) · #1,279 in Austria (2025) · #1,315 in Canada (2025) and 8 more.
Among 1,450 notable people named Sonia:
Entertainers appear 1.59× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress (born 1950).
Together with its spelling variant Sonya (#1939), Sonia would rank around #950 with about 270 births last year — the newborns split about 63/37 between Sonia and Sonya.
About 57 girls a year are given Sonny as their full name.
Similar names: Sonya · Tania · Shoshana · Kenya · Lara · Stacy
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