Sunna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sunna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: traditional Muslim law.
- ISIceland1 in 590(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 66K
- SESweden≈1 in 97K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 590 (inferred from the name graph)
594 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
traditional Muslim law
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sunna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
594 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sunna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Sünne: weibl. Vom., wohl
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In dag, Muslim naming ceremony (< KO check spelling, see suuna Hausa) Singular cl. Definition Comment
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In enm, alternative form of sonne (“sun”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, alternative form of sund
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, sun, the Sun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sunnab. 600ESbishop of Merida
- Sunna Borgb. 1946ISIcelandic actor
- Sunna Gunnlaugsb. 1970ISIcelandic musician and composer
- Sunna Gestsdóttirb. 1976ISIcelandic athletics competitor
- Sunna Davíðsdóttirb. 1985ISIcelandic mixed martial artist
- Þórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttirb. 1987ISIcelandic politician
- Sunna Wichmannb. 1990DEGerman association football player
- Sunna Kittib. 1991FISámi illustrator and author
- Sunna Máret Utsib. 1995NOSaami musician
- Sunna Eldon ÞórsdóttirISIcelandic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 594 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 570 | #75 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 429 | #86 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 206 | #4,695 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 165 | #5,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 161 | #43,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 97 | #2,958 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 86 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 81 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 80 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sunna mean, and where does it come from?
- traditional Muslim law Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Sunna a male or female name?
- Sunna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sunna have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 594 people named Sunna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sunna most common?
- Sunna is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 590 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sunna?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 594 people named Sunna in 2026, about 1 in 590 residents.
What do you want to know about Sunna?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunnaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sunna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.