Soriah
Soriah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,447 among girls’ names; 452 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Soriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Soriah?
#7,447 among girls’ names, 2025
Soriah rose from #7,949 in 2015 to #7,447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 9.3 per million.
53 babies in 2022, the peak
Soriah peaked in 2022, when 53 girls were given it, #3,118 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,447 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,215 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,441 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,118 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,913 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,184 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,310 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,465 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,242 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,376 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,949 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,847 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,995 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,415 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,529 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,357 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,303 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,902 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,480 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,103 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,274 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,652 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,770 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,137 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,913 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,269 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,572 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,813 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,210 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,272 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Soriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Soriah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Soriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Soriah, and how old are they?
An estimated 448 Americans named Soriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 283 people named Soriah (283 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,018 babies since 1880, Soriah is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 236 babies (6.4%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Soriah
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 Soriah and names like it
- Compare Soriah and SoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSoriah peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Soriah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Soriah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Soriah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.