Entry № 10138 · Old English origin

Sunna Sunna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOON-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old English
Meaning
"Sun"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old English)

A name that means "sun".

Sunna is the Old English and Old Norse name for the sun — and the personification of the sun goddess in Germanic pre-Christian religion. The same root gives modern English "sun."

Sunna is rare but rising as parents revive Anglo-Saxon names.

The Germanic sun goddess.

The name in its native script.

Sunna
Transliteration
Sunna
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuːn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sunna stands.

Sunna 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.

Sunnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sunna
Germanic sun goddess.
Germanic mythology

Names connected to Sunna.

The number behind Sunna.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sunna reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.