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Sohum

About 584 American babies have been named Sohum since 1995, most of them around 2009. In 2025 it ranked 5,045th. About 580 Sohums are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Sohum

By the numbers

Total US births
584
Estimated living today
580
Median age today
14
Peak year
2009
Best rank
2,847th
Rank in 2025
5,045th
First recorded
1995

How old the living Sohums are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 584 babies given the name since 1995, about 580 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Sohum is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sohum is most concentrated in California (6.9×), New Jersey (6.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular boys’ names the year Sohum peaked:

All the names of 2009

Sohum elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Sohum 21 3,848th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.