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Sunni

Meaning: Sunny, cheerful
Origin: English — Variant of Sunny

Girl's name · #1960 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Sunni reached its best rank, #1496, in 1976 and ranked #1960 in 2025. About 2,600 girls have carried it since 1949.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 7 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #4,193 in England & Wales (2024) · #2,553 in Canada (2022) · #9,568 in Ecuador (2000).

Famous Sunnis

Sunni Hughes — Australian footballer (born 1968)
Sunni Brown — American author in Austin, Texas (born 1977)

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Sunny (#390) and Sunnie (#1094), Sunni would rank around #277 with about 1,100 births last year — the newborns split about 71/20/9 across Sunny, Sunnie, and Sunni.

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