Somaya
Somaya was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,287 among girls’ names; 1,003 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Somaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Somaya?
#8,287 among girls’ names, 2025
Somaya fell from #4,217 in 2015 to #8,287 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 8.1 per million.
207 babies in 2012, the peak
Somaya peaked in 2012, when 207 girls were given it, #1,193 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,287 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,766 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,361 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,006 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,377 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,739 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,143 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,341 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,060 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,718 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,217 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,708 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,702 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,193 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,355 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,778 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,112 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,870 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,186 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,307 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,575 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,397 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,296 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,740 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Somaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Somaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Somaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Somaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 995 Americans named Somaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 957 people named Somaya (956 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 866 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,566 babies since 1880, Somaya is the most given (64% of them).
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 Somaya
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 Somaya and names like it
- Compare Somaya and SoumyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSomaya peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Somaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Somaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Somaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.