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Somaya

#8,287 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Somaya has been given to 1,003 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #8,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Somaya, 2025

1 in 255,000

Somaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Somaya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Somaya means

Somaya is a alternate transcription of Sumayya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Somaya → Sumayya. The family’s meaning is “high, elevated, lofty”, recorded in the naming reference for Sumayya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sumayya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,003 girls were recorded with the name Somaya between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 207 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,193 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,739 in 2020 to #8,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,217 in 2015 to #8,287 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 Somaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,287
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Somaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Somaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Somayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Somaya was born before 2012 — so the typical Somaya is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
72.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,003
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Choose a decade

2010s — 72.4% of all recorded uses (726).

Is Somaya 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
−2,521
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,548
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,070
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.3%
Peak was 2012 (207)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
66.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,193
2012

Spellings of Somaya

Somaya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 40.3% against Somaya's 0.33%.

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 Somaya is used

Across 1910–2025, Somaya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 263,642 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Somaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Somaya around the world

Where Somaya 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
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1977–2024
    #4,732
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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.

Somaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,548
Best rank ever
#1,193
2012
Peak year
2012
207 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,003
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Somaya

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

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Sibling names for Somaya

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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