Sonam — #10513 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sonam

The Social Security Administration has registered 481 babies named Sonam between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sonam currently holds the #10513 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Sonam is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 118 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sonam performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sonam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 63 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Sonam in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sonam 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 481 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.