Is Sunny a male or female name?
Sunny is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 74% and male usage in England and Wales at 67%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 66%
- Sample size
- 20,642
- Confidence
- high
Sunny by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 74% | 16,657 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 67% | 1,567 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 60% | 1,238 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 83% | 870 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | male | 62% | 135 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 84% | 83 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 73% | 52 | statat |
| Ireland IE | male | 63% | 40 | cso |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · LK · MT · PL · SE · US
Sunny over time
In the United States, 57.8% of the babies named Sunny in the 1910s were girls, against 78.9% in the 2020s. In France, 7.7% of the babies named Sunny in the 1990s were girls, against 30% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 58% | 109 | — | |
| 1920s | 66% | 193 | — | |
| 1930s | 68% | 278 | — | |
| 1940s | 84% | 610 | — | |
| 1950s | 84% | 539 | — | |
| 1960s | 85% | 468 | — | |
| 1970s | 84% | 2,006 | — | |
| 1980s | 74% | 2,030 | — | |
| 1990s | 53% | 1,803 | 8% | 260 |
| 2000s | 63% | 1,807 | 14% | 210 |
| 2010s | 77% | 2,996 | 20% | 220 |
| 2020s | 79% | 3,807 | 30% | 100 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Sunny with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Sunny&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Sunny
Is Sunny a male or female name?
Sunny is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 74% and male usage in England and Wales at 67%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Sunny change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Sunny identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.