How Many People Are Named Sonya?
people named Sonya are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,826 people in the US has this name
Based on 65,954 babies named Sonya in Social Security records from 1905 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐ Rare
Peak Year
2,987 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Russian diminutive of SOPHIA. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' (1869, English translation 1886).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sonya in English. Counting Sonya and these spellings together, about 116,855 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Sonya (99.7%) were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Sonya alive today is about 51 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 44 and 59 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Sonya first appears in the records in 1905 and was given most often in 1967, to 2,987 babies. In 2025, 100 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1905 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Sonya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #114, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #1,939.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,939 |
| Best rank | #114 (1967) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #170 in the 1960s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Sonya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sonya were born in California than in any other state: about 4,873 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sonya was given 2.5 times as often in Alabama, 2.1 times in Georgia and 2.1 times in South Carolina.
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