Sosha — girls' name
155 babies named Sosha in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Sosha was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Sosha in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sosha
The Social Security Administration has registered 155 babies named Sosha between 1977 and 2022, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sosha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sosha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sosha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sosha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sosha 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 155 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.
Sosha at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sosha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1977
- Peak year (1988)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
155 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 19 births in a single year.
Sosha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 73 births that decade — 47% of Sosha's all-time total
Sosha decade highlights
- Peak decade 73 births
- Runner-up 46 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sosha's strongest decade
73 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Sosha by state
Where Sosha concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 8 | 5.2% |
8 of 155 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.