Soraida — girls' name

What the Data Says About Soraida

The Social Security Administration has registered 542 babies named Soraida between 1952 and 2009, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Soraida currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Soraida performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Soraida shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Soraida in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Soraida 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 542 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.