Given name
Soumya
“gentle, calm”
Soumya is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “gentle, calm.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Soumya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 266
- 0 boys · 266 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,753 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.
Soumya’s family of names
In English usage, Soumya has a related form in SAUMYA. In English usage, Soumya has a related form in SAUMYA. In English usage, Soumya has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form सौम्य.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Soumya
- Soumya SwaminathanIndian paediatrician and clinical scientistborn 1959
- Soumya SadanandanIndian film directorborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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