girls:
472 births since 1986
#5244 (8th percentile)
boys:
113 births since 2000
#4473 (2nd percentile)
overall:
585 births since 1986
#7154 (8th percentile)
The name Sonam is the #7,154 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 585 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,244 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 472 births since 1986. For boys, it ranks #4,473 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 2000.
Sonam first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Sonam is available in 37 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (34 years for girls and 18 years for boys). 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.
The name Sonam has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 58.6% of babies named Sonam were girls.
For girls, Sonam reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #832) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sonam ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 60.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sonam reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #904) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sonam is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #904 (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sonam".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sonam is pronounced as SOH-nuhm, which has 2 syllables.
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