Somaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soh-MY-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Somaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Somaya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sumayya
“high, exalted”
Sumayya bint Khayyat is remembered in Islamic tradition as the first martyr of Islam.
Is Somaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Somaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Somaya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Somaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Somaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 11 | #2,463 |
| 2011 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Somaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Somaya, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 207 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Somaya than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Somaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Somaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,233 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,646 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,071 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,236 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,995 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,143 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,681 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,680 |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,188 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,210 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
Names like Somaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Inaya Amira Safiya Aaliyah Hafsa Khadija Liyana Abeeha Sumayyah Amaya Zainab
Names related to Somaya
Sumaya Sumayah Sumayya Sumaiya Summaya Soma Samya Smaya Simaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
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, “Somaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/somaya, updated 20 October 2026.