Sunday
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning day of the sun; born on sunday.
Babies a year
37
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#947
new to the top 1000
UK popularity
#951
37 babies
Sunday by the numbers
In 2025, 37 babies in England and Wales were named Sunday. In the US, 45 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 109 babies in 1966, making it a 1960s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sunday. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean the sun
Like Sunday, each of these has the sun in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Sunday
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