Entry № 10144 · English origin

Sunny Sunny — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SUN-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Bright, cheerful, sun"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "bright, cheerful, sun".

Sunny is the English word used directly as a name — "of the sun," "bright and cheerful." It can also be a nickname for Sunshine.

Sunny has been quietly rising in the U.S. for decades. Today it sits in the U.S. top 800.

Bright, cheerful, sun — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sunny
Transliteration
Sunny
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʌn.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sunny stands.

Sunny 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.

Sunnys before her.

Real people
Sunny Hostin
American lawyer and TV host.
born 1968
Sunny von Bülow
American heiress, subject of Reversal of Fortune.
1932 – 2008
In fiction
Sunny Baudelaire
Youngest child in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
1999 onward

Names connected to Sunny.

The number behind Sunny.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sunny reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.