boys:
1k births since 1992
#3564 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1992
#6710 (13th percentile)
The name Soham is the #6,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,029 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 13.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,564 (22.2% percentile) for all time with 1,029 births since 1992.
Soham first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (first recorded for boys in 1992). Birth data for Soham is available in 31 out of the 32 years between 1992 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Soham reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #816) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Soham ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 46.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Soham".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Soham. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Soham is pronounced as SOH-huhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SOH-hahm, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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