Somaya
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Somaya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Se Sumaya.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 4.1K
- QAQatar≈1 in 8.6Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Se Sumaya.
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Somaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #921 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Somaya | 9 |
| EG Egypt | #682 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Somaya | 65 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Somaya | 27 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Somaya | 53 |
| IN India | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 653K | 11 | Somaya | 17 |
| US United States | — | 957 | 1 in 348K | 956 | Somaya | 87 |
| QA Qatar | #743 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Somaya | 20 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Somaya Bashirb. 1974ILArab Israeli activist and emotional therapist
- Somaya Harunb. 2001BDBangladeshi model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder
- Somaya Faruqib. 2002AFAfghanistan robotics expert
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Somaya a male or female name?
- Somaya is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Somaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Se Sumaya.
- Which countries have the most people named Somaya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Somaya in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled somaya. After it come Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Somaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 957 people named Somaya in 2020, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
- How common is Somaya compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Somaya is the 921st most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/somayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Somaya” — the 921st most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.