Sonam

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sonam is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Bhutan it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 5.3K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 223K
  • BTBhutan1 in 310

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
217 ●

158K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 223K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

SonamLatin · Hindi●568K records
소남Hangul · Korean●322 records
সোনামBengali · Bangla●65 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 소남 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sonam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#591616,822151K rec.—2.1KSonam193
US United States—1,4904.1K rec.1 in 223K1.5KSonam217
GB United Kingdom—623257 rec.—listedSonam65
KR South Korea—373167 rec.——소남19
CA Canada—267242 rec.—11Sonam58
MY Malaysia—22596 rec.——Sonam13
JP Japan—169139 rec.——Sonam17
NP Nepal—169465 rec.——Sonam55
CH Switzerland—88100 rec.—32Sonam21
ID Indonesia—8568 rec.—listedSonam15
CN China—7285 rec.——Sonam9
VN Vietnam—679 rec.——Sonam8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi568K88%
  • English16K2%
  • 12K2%
  • Bangla7.6K1%
  • Urdu7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi568,25788%
English15,8922%
12,0142%
Bangla7,5531%
Urdu7,0421%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sonam is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name20K records spelled Sonam16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sôñâm, Sõnãm, Sönam

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Sonam3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, China

    Also written Sönam, Sŏnam

  • Thai given name2.0K records spelled Sonam18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written สอนอ่ำ, สอนอำ, โซนัม, โสนาม, สอนอ่ำ'

  • Spanish given name1.9K records spelled Sonam3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sönam

  • dz given name1.4K records spelled Sonam4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bhutan, India

    Also written Sõnam, Söñâm, Sönam

  • Turkish given name339 records spelled Sonam4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Sönam

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001920194019601980200015K · 1993

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Sonam in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
18993
19011
19084
19152
19165
19184
19192
19209
19217
192211
192341
192413
192513
19264
19272
19284
19292
19304
19314
19329
19333
19346
19358
19369
19379
19384
193910
194014
194111
194217
194316
194422
194520
194619
194735
194822
194911
195017
195132
195227
195324
195432
195531
195631
195729
195839
195949
196048
196151
196269
196373
196462
196576
196676
1967122
1968123
1969123
1970149
1971183
1972240
1973193
1974224
1975255
1976361
1977418
1978513
1979567
1980591
1981891
19821,216
19831,626
19842,011
19852,601
19863,321
19874,998
19885,959
19898,446
199010,059
199112,352
199214,095
199315,100
199413,669
199512,258
19968,705
19977,331
19984,622
1999336
20005
20011
200881
20092
2010186
20111
201218
20137
2014406
2015393
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

194019601980200020202040Sonam Dolma Brauen, b. 1953Sonam Wangchuk, b. 1966Soname Yangchen, b. 1973Princess Sonam Dechen Wangchuck of Bhutan, b. 1981Sonam Jamtsho, b. 1983Sonam Kapoor, b. 1985Sonam Bajwa, b. 1989Sonam Malik, b. 2002Sonam Yangden Wangchuck, b. 2023

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Sonam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.1K#3,018
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5K#7,055
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020708#7,055
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—674#178
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—588#3,607
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)2015393—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—72#9,518
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—62#7,387
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—52#26,933
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—41#15,591
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—38#15,867
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202636#4,249

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 341 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sonam?
We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Sonam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Sonam have the most bearers?
Sonam is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sonam.
How common is Sonam compared with other names?
In India, Sonam is the 591st most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sonam a male or female name?
Sonam is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sonam” — the 591st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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