Sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, meaning "little song" — from sonus (sound). The sonnet is the 14-line poem perfected by Petrarch and Shakespeare.
Sonnet is rare as a given name but rising — chosen by literary families. Forest Whitaker named his daughter Sonnet.
Sonnet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sonnet reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.