Somali Boy Names
Explore names documented in Somali naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 3,501#101 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 1,333#260 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914. | 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1943. | 568#527 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1922. | 486#595 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923. | 447#626 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1947. | 337#763 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1962. | 250#940 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967. | 83#1,894 | Down 255 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994. | 36#3,240 | Down 1,318 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1993. | 41#2,991 | Down 897 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977. | 34#3,426 | Up 809 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979. | 15#5,896 | Down 3,381 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003. | 5#12,004 | new | 2009 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2004. | 5#13,542 | new | 2010 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1997. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Documented Somali usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2009. | 5#12,121 | new | 2015 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.