Sunne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of sun
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sunne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 1M
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.2M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of sun.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sunne 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Sunne | 83 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Sunne | 4 |
| MA Morocco | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sunne | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Sunne | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Sunne | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Sunne | 14 |
| SE Sweden | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 12 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | 8 | — | 3 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Sunne 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 enm, alternative form of sonne (“sun”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of sunn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, legal obligation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In stq, the Sun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Zviedrijā, Vermlandes lēnē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Johan Sunneb. 1890SEpolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden (1890-1967)
- August Sunneb. 1891EEEstonian actor and director (1891-1941)
- Linn T. Sunneb. 1971NONorwegian writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #33,947 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #2,957 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Sunne mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of sun. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sunne?
- A machine transcription gives /sun/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sunne a male or female name?
- Sunne is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sunne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Sunne in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sunne.
- How common is the name Sunne?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Sunne, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sunne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Sunne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.