Sunny

See also: sunny

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Sunny (plural Sunnys)

1. A unisex given name.
   • 2023 October 24, Snejana Farberov, “Mom of kids named Aryan and Nation was on meth in hit-and-run death of Native American woman: cops”, in New York Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2023:

     Sunny White was apprehended in Flathead County Friday on a warrant out of Lake County charging her with vehicular homicide while under the influence in the March 2023 death of 22-year-old Mika Westwolf.

2. A surname.
3. A diminutive of the male given name Sunil.
4. A diminutive of the female given name Sunita.
5. A diminutive of the unisex given name Sundeep.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sunny is the 38265^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 579 individuals. Sunny is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (67.88%) and White (22.63%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sunny”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.