Given name
Soumaya
“perfect”
Soumaya is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Soumaya goes back to Arabic سمية, meaning “perfect.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Soumaya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 0 boys · 74 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,962 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,962 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 275 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.
Soumaya’s family of names
Soumaya may belong to the same name family as SOUMAYYA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Soumaya
- Soumaya AkaabouneMoroccan-American actressborn 1974
- Soumaya Naamane GuessousMoroccan sociologistborn 1955
- Soumaya MestiriTunisian philosopherborn 1976
- Soumaya KeynesBritish economistborn 1989
- Soumaya LaamiriTunisian association football playerborn 1995
- Soumaya OuerghiTunisian association football player and coachborn 1950
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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