Girls' name · since 1990
Soroya
Since 1990, U.S. Social Security records show 12 babies named Soroya, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #52,350 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,345 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Soroya is the #12345 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 12 recorded since 1990.
Social Security Administration records show Soroya recorded 12 times among girls since 1990, holding rank #12345 nationally today, ahead of 29% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2025.
- #52,350 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,345 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 12 born since 1990
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Soroya ranks #52,350 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,345 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 12 born since 1990, peaking in the 2020s.
- #52,350 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,345 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
Soroya's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Soroya compares
12 4th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Soroya's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Soroya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 12 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Soroya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Soroya's full recorded timeline at 2025, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1990, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Soroya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Soroya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (7 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Soroya's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Soroya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Soroya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~35 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Soroya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.