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Sonny or Sony is a common nickname, occasional given name and last name ~Son ,often it can be a derivative of the English word "Son" (Child or Grandson),[1] a name derived from the Ancient Germanic element *sunn meaning "sun";[2] a nickname derived from the Italian names Salvatore, Santo, or Santino (mostly in North America amongst Italian Americans); or the Slavic male name Slavon meaning "famous or glorious". And in Chinese meaning Yellow

Notable people with the name include:

Athletes

Jazz musicians

Other musicians

  • Sonny Double 1, Welsh rapper
  • Sonny Black, English singer/songwriter born William Boazman
  • Salvatore Sonny Bono (1935–1998), American singer, record producer and politician
  • Albert Sonny Burgess (1929–2017), rockabilly singer and guitarist
  • Sonny Lim, Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player.
  • Edwin Sonny Chillingworth (1932–1994), slack-key guitar player from Hawaii
  • Albert "Sonny" Cunha (1879–1933), Hawaiian composer
  • Sonny Curtis (born 1937), country and pop singer-songwriter
  • Sonny Digital (born 1991), American record producer, rapper, and DJ.
  • Sonny Emory (born 1962), freelance touring and studio drummer
  • Sonny James (1928–2016), stage name of American country music singer James Hugh Loden
  • Sonny Kay (born 1972), founder of the record label Gold Standard Laboratories
  • Sonny King (singer) (1922–2006), American lounge singer born Luigi Antonio Schiavone
  • Clyde Sonny Landreth (born 1951), American blues guitar player
  • Sonny Fredie Pedersen, Danish musician and actor
  • Sonny Sanders (1939–2016), American soul music singer-songwriter, arranger, and producer
  • Paul Sonny Sandoval (born 1974), lead singer of rock band P.O.D.
  • Sonny Terry (1911–1986), blind American blues musician born Saunders Terrell
  • Joseph Sonny West (1937–2022), American rockabilly guitarist and songwriter
  • Sonny Boy Williamson I a.k.a. John Lee Williamson (1914–1948), blues singer and harmonica player
  • Sonny Boy Williamson II a.k.a. Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller (c.1912–1965), blues singer and harmonica player
  • Sonny John Moore a.k.a. Skrillex, DJ Producer
  • Sonny Leonard Grootscholten a.k.a. Sonny, DJ, music producer and songwriter

Other

  • Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports marketing executive
  • Sonny Angara (born 1972), Filipino politician
  • Ralph Sonny Barger (1938–2022), founding member of the original Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club
  • Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte Jr. (born 1936), Filipino politician
  • Dominick Napolitano, also known as Sonny Black (1930–1981), capo in the Bonanno crime family
  • Al Indelicato, also known as Sonny Red (1931–1981), another capo in the Bonanno crime family, killed during the same gangland war, in which the two led opposite sides
  • Sonny Caldinez (1932–2022), Trinidadian actor
  • Sonny Flood (born 1989), English actor who plays Josh Ashworth on Hollyoaks
  • Sonny Grosso (1930–2020), police detective and movie producer from New York
  • John Franzese, Sr. (1917–2020), underboss of the Colombo crime family
  • William Sonny Landham (1941–2017), American actor and stuntman
  • Sonny Mehta (born Ajai Singh Mehta; 1942–2019), Indian book editor
  • Gillespie V. Montgomery (1920–2006), American politician
  • George Sonny Perdue (born 1946), U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former Governor of Georgia
  • Shridath Ramphal (born 1928), commonly called "Sonny Ramphal" or "Sir Sonny", Guyanese politician and 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General
  • Otis Sonny Shroyer (born 1935), American actor
  • Sonny Venkatrathnam(1938-2019), South African human rights activist.
  • Delbert Sonny West (1938–2017), American actor and stunt performer
  • Harold G. White (born 1965), mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and applied physicist
  • Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
  • Sun Yat-sen, Former President of the Republic of China

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sonny m - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  2. ^ "Sonny f - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2021-08-05.