Soham
Soham was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,123 among boys’ names; 1,074 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Soham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Soham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Soham mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Soham is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi सोहम (soham) or Bengali সোহম (śōhom).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Soham?
#4,123 among boys’ names, 2025
Soham fell from #3,501 in 2015 to #4,123 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 15.2 per million.
69 babies in 2010, the peak
Soham peaked in 2010, when 69 boys were given it, #2,001 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,123 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,406 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,863 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,828 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,756 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,935 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,455 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,868 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,707 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,212 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,501 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,742 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,755 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,030 | 36.4 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,226 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,001 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,225 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,156 | 30.9 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,065 | 32.3 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,169 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,602 | 21.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,778 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,031 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,646 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,600 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,283 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,125 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,410 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,588 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,024 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,651 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,948 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,063 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Soham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Soham has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Soham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Soham, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,074 Americans ever recorded as Soham. The median Soham alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,375 people named Soham (35 women and girls, 1,340 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 944 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 374 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Soham born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,965 | 1.4× |
Where Soham is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Soham is most over-represented in California: since 1992 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Soham with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,658 babies since 1880, Soham is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 45 babies (58%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Soham
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Soham and names like it
- Compare Soham and SohumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSoham peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Soham since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Soham: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Soham.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Soham alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.