Som

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Som has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1981, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Som, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Som: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Som means

Som is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Som is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Som between 1981 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1981; its best national rank was #5,413 in 1981.

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 Som?

Som had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Som 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Som. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Som was born before 2017 — so the typical Som is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 75.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 29; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Som 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: 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 1981 (7)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,413; 1981

Som around the world

Where Som 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.

South Australia
1987–1987
#464
in 1987

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Som 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: #5,413; 1981
Peak year: 1981; 7 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 29
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Som

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

Soma Somil Somnang Jasom Somers Folsom Chisom Grissom Isom Newsom Taysom Somtochukwu Ransom

Sibling names for Som

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

Kandi Fawn Jessi Jenelle Charissa Latrice Eboni Darci

For a brother

Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell

Explore around Som

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