Girl
Sonya
Rooted in Russian, Sonya is a girl's name that means "Russian diminutive of Sofia". It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
RussianRussian diminutive of Sofia
GreekGreek – "wisdom"
Births by decade
1900s
18
1910s
209
1920s
416
1930s
1,655
1940s
1,759
1950s
3,667
1960s
22,355
1970s
19,560
1980s
8,456
1990s
3,384
2000s
2,277
2010s
1,342
Peaked in the 1960s · 65,098 total U.S. births since 1900