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Soumaya

#16,958 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Soumaya has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #16,958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Soumaya, 2025

1 in 663,000

Soumaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soumaya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Soumaya means

Soumaya is a alternate transcription of Sumayya.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Soumaya is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Another recorded pronunciation is /su.ˈmaj.ja/ for Soumaya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Soumaya → 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, 74 girls were recorded with the name Soumaya between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2015; its best national rank was #11,718 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,203 in 2020 to #16,958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,718 in 2015 to #16,958 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 Soumaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soumaya 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soumaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soumayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soumaya was born before 2015 — so the typical Soumaya is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
74
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Choose a decade

2010s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Soumaya 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
+245
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,240
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2015 (9)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,718
2015

Spellings of Soumaya

Soumaya is not the most common spelling — Soraya is, with 42.8% against Soumaya's 0.46%.

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 Soumaya is used

Across 1910–2025, Soumaya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Soumaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Soumaya around the world

Where Soumaya 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
    1998–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1974–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Soumaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 245
Best rank ever
#11,718
2015
Peak year
2015
9 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Soumaya

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

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Sibling names for Soumaya

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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