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Kulsoom

#12,585 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Kulsum

Kulsoom has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #12,585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Kulsoom, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kulsoom over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kulsoom: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kulsum

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kulsoom means

Kulsoom is a alternate transcription of Kulsum.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kulsoom is used in Urdu and Bengali.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kulsum.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 67 girls were recorded with the name Kulsoom between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1997; its best national rank was #11,485 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,428 in 2020 to #12,585 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kulsoom?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kulsoom sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kulsoom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kulsooms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kulsoom was born before 2019 — so the typical Kulsoom is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
67
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2020s — 46.3% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Kulsoom rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+265
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,843
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 1997 (7)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,485
1997

Kulsoom around the world

Where Kulsoom ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kulsoom by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,843
Best rank ever
#11,485
1997
Peak year
1997
7 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kulsoom

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kulsoom

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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