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Soma

#9,586 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

A blooming flower, herb, sprout, through सोम

Soma has been given to 254 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #9,586 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.

Babies named Soma, 2025

1 in 414,000

Soma over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Soma over time

In 2025, Soma went to 47% girls and 53% boys.

19732025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Soma: meaning, origin, and history

A blooming flower, herb, sprout, through सोम

Sanskrit

What Soma means

Soma belongs to the name family reached through Soma → सोम. Its meaning is “a blooming flower, herb, sprout”.

Origin, language, and formation

Soma is used in English and Hungarian. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Soma comes through Sanskrit सोम.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include सोम.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Soma is pronounced [ˈʃomɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 144 boys were recorded with the name Soma between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2022; its best national rank was #6,423 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,628 in 2020 to #9,586 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,632 in 2015 to #9,586 in 2025.

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Soma between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,269 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,194 in 2020 to #13,008 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.

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How common is Soma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,586
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soma 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Somas were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
144
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2010s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Soma 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
−1,905
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−958
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−954
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2022 (14)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,423
2022

Spellings of Soma

Soma is not the most common spelling — Tom is, with 23.1% against Soma's 0.02%.

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 Soma is used

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

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Most concentrated

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

Soma around the world

Where Soma 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
    2008–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2007–2024
    #3,523
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Soma by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,586
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 958
Best rank ever
#6,423
2022
Peak year
2022
14 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,008
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,186
Best rank ever
#8,269
1973
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Soma

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

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Sibling names for Soma

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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