How rare is the name Sonia?

113,726 people in the United States have the first name Sonia, about 1 in 2,656. It ranks #494 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SONIA

#494

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
113,726
About
1 in 2,656
This common or more
58.2%
Who bears it

Of the 113,726 people named Sonia, 64.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 17.2% as White and 8.8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sonia peaked in 1970, when 1,777 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18952025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
1,777
In 2025*
171 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 67,026 babies have been given the name since 1895. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Sonia by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #347. The largest share of babies named Sonia, 36.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1890s#2,60730
1900s#1,862107
1910s#1,434588
1920s#1,2041,230
1930s#7582,510
1940s#8542,571
1950s#6555,870
1960s#44612,982
1970s#34715,302
1980s#5109,643
1990s#7227,282
2000s#1,1054,886
2010s#1,7212,886
2020s#2,3131,139
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.3%
Silent Generation 1928–456.5%
Baby boom 1946–6418.4%
Generation X 1965–8036.1%
Millennials 1981–9620.6%
Generation Z 1997–1211.7%
2013 and later4.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Sonia is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sonia has been most common in California (2.4×), Arizona (1.9×), and New York (1.9×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.14×).

61,769 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Sonia

#492 Ernest · 114,307#493 Ramon · 114,143#495 Peyton · 113,474#496 Cory · 113,340

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sonia, most common first.

#827 Sonya · 56,885#5,819 Sona · 2,857#13,197 Soni · 921#15,649 Soniya · 732#17,966 Sonnia · 605#24,355 Sonna · 396#31,941 Somia · 266#32,621 Sonie · 257

Also a last name

As a last name, Sonia ranks #46,865 of 156,621, with 489 people. See Sonia as a last name

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