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Sohan

#3,931 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Sohan has been given to 931 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #3,931 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Sohan, 2025

1 in 118,000

Sohan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sohan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sohan means

Sohan is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 931 boys were recorded with the name Sohan between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,083 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,673 in 2020 to #3,931 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,157 in 2015 to #3,931 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 Sohan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,931
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sohan 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 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sohan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sohans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sohan was born before 2010 — so the typical Sohan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
931
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (394).

Is Sohan 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
+128
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+742
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.8%
Peak was 2008 (67)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,083
2008

Spellings of Sohan

Sohan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 68.6% against Sohan'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.

Where Sohan is used

Across 1910–2025, Sohan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 307,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sohan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sohan around the world

Where Sohan 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #65
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,181
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sohan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,931
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 742
Best rank ever
#2,083
2008
Peak year
2008
67 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
931
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Sohan

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

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Sibling names for Sohan

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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