Given name & surname
Suni
Suni is a surname from Middle Low German. It is used in Finnish and Faroese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 393
- 0 boys · 393 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 22
- #5,696 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 22 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,696 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 705 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Suni’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Suni as a surname has a related form in SUNIKKA.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Suni
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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