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Shoma

Boys' name

From Japanese しょうま; literal meaning unconfirmed

Shoma has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 2013. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Shoma, 2019

1 in 496,000

Shoma over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shoma: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese しょうま; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Shoma means

Shoma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shoma is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Shoma comes through Japanese しょうま.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Shoma between 2013 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2019; its best national rank was #10,629 in 2019.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shoma?

Shoma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 256,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shoma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shoma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shoma was born before 2018 — so the typical Shoma is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
24
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Shoma 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2019 (7)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,629
2019

Spellings of Shoma

Shoma is not the most common spelling — Thomas is, with 98.3% against Shoma's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Shoma by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,629
2019
Peak year
2019
7 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shoma

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

ShozoShoheiShohnShortyShoanShownShosoShouaRyomaShotaSholemShounShogoShondelShonnonShotaroShornShongSholaShoalShouShoaibShojiShontel

Sibling names for Shoma

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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