Sonam is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sonam in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sonam in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sonam by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sonam ranks at #6,759. That means there are 6,758 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sonam.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Sonam. Girls named Sonam have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,141 Sonam ranked higher than ever before in 1992. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Sonam has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2006. In general, parents name their daughters Sonam only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sonam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Sonam continues to be a precious jewel: 23 newborns were named Sonam that year, ranking #4,797 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Sonam, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Sonam is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 102 Americans in total bear this name. And these 102 women are located in only three states: California, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Sonam and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Sonam in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 236,713 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sonam.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Sonam is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sonam and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sonam, you can simply say:
Sun
Orange
Nut
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sonam
Sonam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
O
N
A
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
O
N
A
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sonam sounds like this:
