Sonni
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/sonni/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Sonni is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 27K(measured from records)
- FOFaroe Islands≈1 in 53K
- NONorway≈1 in 91K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sonni counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 8 | Sonni | 11 |
| US United States | 551 | 1 in 604K | 468 | Sonni | 175 |
| DE Germany | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Sonni | 37 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sonni | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 221 | 1 in 27K | 200 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 90 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Sonni | 6 |
| FO Faroe Islands | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 24 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sonni is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, bull (uncastrated adult male of domesticated cattle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, bull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sonni Ogbuojib. 1954NGNigerian politician
- Sonni Nattestadb. 1994NOFaroese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sonni?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /sonni/; in Spanish /sonni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sonni a male or female name?
- Sonni is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Sonni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Sonni in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sonni.
- Where is Sonni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sonni is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sonni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 551 people named Sonni in 2020, about 1 in 604 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sonni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sonniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sonni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.