Given name

Sohini

Sohini is a feminine given name from Bengali.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sohini comes from Bengali.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

A transliteration of Bengali সোহিনী.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Sohini through the years

Babies since 1880
46
0 boys · 46 girls
Most popular year
2001
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Sohini in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1996–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 328 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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