# Sonja (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sonja/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 39,557 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 44 / 39,513 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 101, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 108 | 1,869 |
| 2012 | 114 | 1,800 |
| 2013 | 110 | 1,846 |
| 2014 | 110 | 1,850 |
| 2015 | 86 | 2,207 |
| 2016 | 92 | 2,124 |
| 2017 | 69 | 2,568 |
| 2018 | 77 | 2,385 |
| 2019 | 80 | 2,284 |
| 2020 | 76 | 2,337 |
| 2021 | 68 | 2,582 |
| 2022 | 40 | 3,822 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,698 |
| 2024 | 56 | 2,975 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,966 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 5 | 3,971 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,918 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,981 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,896 |
| 1967 | 8 | 3,203 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,842 |
| 1973 | 9 | 3,659 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2009 | 7 | 3,031 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |

## People named Sonja

- Sonja Lang, Canadian writer and hyperpolyglot (born 1978)
- Sonja Sohn, American actress, activist (b. 1964)
- Sonja Ziemann, German actress (1926–2020)
- Sonja Gerhardt, German film and television actress
- Sonja Graf, German-born American chess player
- Sonja Lumme, Finnish singer
- Sonja Fuss, German association football player
- Sonja Savić, actress (1961-2008)
- Sonja Kristina, English singer
- Sonja Greinacher, German basketball player (born 1992)
- Sonja Richter, Danish actress
- Sonja Kirchberger, Austrian actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.