Sunjai

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Sunjai by the numbers

Sunjai was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 27 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Sunjai

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sunjai. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Sundai5 in the US (2017)
  • Sinaiclay; from Mount Sinai72 in the US (2017)
  • Sonjawise; a form of sonya or sonia68 in the US (2017)
  • Sundayday of the sun; born on sunday37 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Sunnifollower of the Sunnah; Islamic tradition33 in the US (2017)
  • Sanai136 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Sunjai

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