Soumaya
Sumaya or Suemaya is an Arabic feminine given name.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Soumaya
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sumaya or Suemaya is an Arabic feminine given name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Soumaya
The earliest SSA record of Soumaya as a baby girl name dates back to 1997, when 5 babies received it. 2015 was its biggest year on record, with 9 newborns named Soumaya — #10,862 in the national rankings. About 68% of every Soumaya on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Soumaya last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 69 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Soumaya
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About the name Soumaya
Soumaya is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1997 and has accumulated 69 births in the dataset. Soumaya's peak popularity came in 2015 when it ranked #10,862. Use the chart and map above to compare Soumaya's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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