first name
SONJA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 33,999 people named Sonja, 68.6% reported their origin as White, 19.9% as Black and 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sonja peaked in 1967, when 1,343 babies got the name.
At least 39,557 babies have been given the name since 1906. 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.
Sonja by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #499. The largest share of babies named Sonja, 37.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Sonja is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sonja has been most common in Minnesota (2.2×), North Dakota (2×), and Washington (1.8×), and least common in Connecticut (0.25×).
35,170 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.
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4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sonja, most common first.
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