first name
SUN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 9,188 people named Sun, 94% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 2.6% as White and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 79.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Sun peaked in 2022, when 28 babies got the name.
At least 1,007 babies have been given the name since 1902. 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.
Sun by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #4,931. The largest share of babies named Sun, 27.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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.
Either side of Sun
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sun, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Sun ranks #929 of 156,621, with 36,735 people. See Sun as a last name
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