Sohrab

#7,600 in 2025Boys' name

Red + water

Sohrab has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #7,600 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Sohrab, 2025

1 in 301,000

Sohrab over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sohrab: meaning, origin, and history

Red + water

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sohrab means

Sohrab means “red + water”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 boys were recorded with the name Sohrab between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,440 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,758 in 2020 to #7,600 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,760 in 2015 to #7,600 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sohrab?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 301,000; 11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 155,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,600; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 208,901 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sohrab 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sohrab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sohrabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sohrab was born before 2004 — so the typical Sohrab is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 96; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Sohrab 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: +6,158; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +6,160; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,440; 1980

Spellings of Sohrab

Sohrab is not the most common spelling — Soham is, with 38.9% against Sohrab's 3.5%.

Soham38.9%1,074
Sohan33.7%931
Sora24.0%663
Sohrab3.5%96

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 Sohrab is used

Across 1910–2025, Sohrab was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Sohrab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sohrab around the world

Where Sohrab 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
1996–2025
#4,275
in 2025
France
2017–2023
#5,663
in 2023
Canada
2009–2024
#2,855
in 2024
South Australia
2007–2007
#680
in 2007

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.

Sohrab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,600
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 6,158
Best rank ever: #5,440; 1980
Peak year: 2025; 11 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 96
Count in 2025: 11

Names similar to Sohrab

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

Sohaib Mehrab Sohail Sohil Sohum Sohaan Sohan Sohrob Soham Soheil Sohn Meerab Sohom Zohrab Purab

Sibling names for Sohrab

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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