Sonna

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sənnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sonna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 734K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 840K
  • SESweden1 in 928K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

396 people, 2020

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sonna 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.

Where Sonna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3961 in 840K391Sonna9
SE Sweden111 in 928K11——
NL Netherlands91 in 1.9M9—2
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
IN India——121Sonna32

396 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sonna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Soñña, Sonña, Sönna

  • Thai given name68 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Bangladesh, United States

    Languages: Thai, Hindi, Bangla

    Also written Sirina, ซูรีนา, ศรีนา, ศิรินา, สนนา

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sonna 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 French, third-person singular past historic of sonner

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Somālijas nacionālā informācijas aģentūra (angļu "Somali National News Agency")

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Sonna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—361#2,349
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—121#25,047
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#80,877

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Sonna?
A machine transcription gives /sənnə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Sonna a male or female name?
Sonna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sonna have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 396 people named Sonna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sonna.
Where is Sonna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sonna is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 734 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sonna?
In the United States, the national register counted 396 people named Sonna in 2020, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.

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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, “Sonna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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