Saumya — girls' name
244 babies named Saumya in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
59% of everyone ever named Saumya was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Saumya in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Saumya
The Social Security Administration has registered 244 babies named Saumya between 1997 and 2019, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saumya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Saumya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Saumya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Saumya in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Saumya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 244 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Saumya at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Saumya popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1997
- Peak year (2002)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
244 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 19 births in a single year.
Saumya popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 2005 (Saumya as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Saumya accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Saumya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 144 births that decade — 59% of Saumya's all-time total
Saumya decade highlights
- Peak decade 144 births
- Runner-up 82 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Saumya's strongest decade
144 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 59% of all-time use.
Saumya by state
Where Saumya concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.0% |
| #2 | New Jersey | | 5 | 2.0% |
5 of 244 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.0% of nationwide
- New Jersey 2.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.