Somaya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 37 babies a year in the US.
Somaya by the numbers
Somaya was given to 37 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 207 babies in 2012, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Somaya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Somaya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Somaya
Names that are said the same way as Somaya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Soumyamild; gentle; auspicious5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Somaya
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