Saumya
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Saumya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “gentle, calm”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Saumya mean?
Sanskrit
“gentle, calm”
A male given name from Sanskrit.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Saumya a girl's or a boy's name?
Saumya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saumya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 5 girls.
Saumya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Saumya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Saumya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2002, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had more girls named Saumya than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Saumya in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saumya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,892 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
Names like Saumya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Arya Maya Aanya Anya Aarya Aadhya Siya Anaya Raya Shreya Navya
Names related to Saumya
More Sanskrit names
Bodhi Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Avyaan Ishaan Leena Shivansh Veer Veda
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saumya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saumya, updated 20 October 2026.