Sunflower
Girl · SUN-flow-er · English
Sunflower is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “sunflower”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Sunflower mean?
English: flower name
“sunflower”
Sunflowers are native to the Americas and were grown by Native Americans long before reaching Europe.
- Say it
- SUN-flow-er
Is Sunflower a girl's or a boy's name?
Sunflower is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sunflower in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Sunflower, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Sunflower than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Sunflower in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sunflower in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
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