Sonja is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Sonja is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,019 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,018 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 34,918 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sonja. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Sonja may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Sonja is apparently especially popular in Minnesota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,959 women in Minnesota is called Sonja. In total, that’s 1,435 women who feel addressed when the name Sonja is shouted loudly across Minnesota and who ensure that their name makes it to #374 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Sonja as the answer a total of 34,918 times. This places Sonja at #638 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Sonja as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Sonja is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sonja and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sonja, you can simply say:
Sun
Orange
Nut
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sonja
Sonja
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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J
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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O
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J
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sonja sounds like this:
