Sunday

Sunday: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “day of the sun”
Origin: English
Say it: SUN-day · 2 syllables
Used for: Girls (97% of all uses)

From the English weekday name, ultimately from Old English sunnandæg. It is used as a given name in some English-speaking contexts and also appears as a surname.

English names Names meaning sun Modern names

How popular is Sunday?

202472.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Sunday in 2024241

2024 rank#1,069 girls

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18803,022

Sunday is rising: use over the last five years is 3.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Sunday

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Oliviaolive tree · English
Evelyndesired; little bird · English
Harperharp player · English
Violetviolet flower · English
Hazelhazel tree · English
Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
Lilylily flower · English
Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Sunday questions

What does the name Sunday mean?

Sunday means "day of the sun". It comes from English. From the English weekday name, ultimately from Old English sunnandæg. It is used as a given name in some English-speaking contexts and also appears as a surname.

Is Sunday a boy or girl name?

Sunday is mainly a girl's name in US records (97% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Sunday?

241 US babies were named Sunday in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Sunday?

Sunday is usually pronounced SUN-day.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.