Somaya
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 207 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,003since 1990
Somaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Somaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 |
| 2013 | #2,681 | 65 |
| 2012 | #1,188 | 207 |
| 2011 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
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| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Somaya! It came in at #11,409, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Somaya is popular in 1990
No state had 5 or more girls named Somaya in 1990, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Somaya
- 2,270 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #7,885)
- 3,237 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #7,885)
- 3,741 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2012 at #1,188 (207 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,508 girls born in 2012 were named Somaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 72.4% of all girls named Somaya (726) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 17 | #11,409 (1990) | #12,384 |
| 2000s | 122 | #5,709 (2007) | #9,434 |
| 2010s | 726 | #1,188 (2012) | #3,503 |
| 2020s | 138 | #4,648 (2020) | #5,590 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Somaya in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 316,425 of them was named Somaya, which outranked 25.1% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,193Zandrea7
- #10,193Zane7
- #10,193Zanna7
- #11,409Somaya6
- #11,409Aariel6
- #11,409Aarion6
- #11,409Abagael6
- #12,958Aarica5
- #12,958Aasha5
- #12,958Abagale5
Tied with 1,548 names at #11,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.