Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1992–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
2010 is the peak year for Soham, with 69 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1992. The 2025 position is #4,050, on 26 births.
The ten-year change is -19%. Year on year the rank improved by 1191.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Soham?
About 1,100 people named Soham are alive in the United States today.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Soham?
Half of living Sohams are older than 15, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Soham a current name.
Your Soham
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Soham is most common
The name is concentrated in California, at 2.0× the national rate.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Soham is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.