Somaya
About 1,003 American babies have been named Somaya since 1990, most of them around 2012. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 1,000 Somayas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Somaya
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,003
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 1,188th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1990
How old the living Somayas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,003 babies given the name since 1990, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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.
Notable Somayas
- Somaya Faruqi (born 2002)Afghanistan robotics expert
People named Somaya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Somaya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Somaya is most concentrated in Florida (2.8×), New York (2.2×), California (2.0×), Georgia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Somaya peaked:
Somaya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Somaya | 315 | 1,290th |
| England and Wales girls | Somaya | 144 | 2,022nd |
| Belgium girls | Somaya | 10 | 1,448th |
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.
Somaya among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Somaya | 13 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Somaya lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 297 women called Somaya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Somaya | 5 | 0.121 | 746 |
| Girona | Somaya | 15 | 0.036 | 1,587 |
| Tarragona | Somaya | 15 | 0.034 | 1,675 |
| AlmerÃa | Somaya | 11 | 0.029 | 1,838 |
| Barcelona | Somaya | 71 | 0.023 | 1,999 |
| Lleida | Somaya | 5 | 0.022 | 2,103 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Somaya against another name
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.