Soumaya
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Soumaya is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- BEBelgium1 in 8K◐
- MAMorocco1 in 11K
- FRFrance1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.1K ●
- Sources
- 202 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 11 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 5,765 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.8K | Soumaya | 202 |
| BE Belgium | #936 | 1,928 | 990 rec. | — | 15 | Soumaya | 34 |
| MA Morocco | #927 | 1,417 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Soumaya | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,177△ | 144 rec. | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | Soumaya | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 776△ | 190 rec. | 1 in 22K | 776 | Soumaya | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | #372 | 759 | 722 rec. | — | — | Soumaya | 21 |
| IN India | — | 318 | 186 rec. | — | — | Soumaya | 31 |
| US United States | — | 271 | 874 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 271 | Soumaya | 66 |
| DE Germany | — | 246 | 214 rec. | — | 1 | Soumaya | 53 |
| YT Mayotte | #14 | 225 | 1 rec. | — | 15 | Soumaya | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 146 | 117 rec. | — | listed | Soumaya | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 137 | 142 rec. | — | 1 | Soumaya | 35 |
Roughly 5.8K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 12K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French36K63%
- Arabic5.9K10%
- Spanish3.6K6%
- English2.3K4%
- Dutch1.6K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 35,565 | 63% |
| Arabic | 5,898 | 10% |
| Spanish | 3,607 | 6% |
| English | 2,254 | 4% |
| Dutch | 1,630 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 38 |
| 1996 | 32 |
| 1997 | 33 |
| 1998 | 37 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 27 |
| 2002 | 37 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 24 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 25 |
| 2008 | 39 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 22 |
| 2012 | 33 |
| 2013 | 30 |
| 2014 | 34 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2024 | 15 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 30 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Soumaya Ouerghib. 1950TNTunisian association football player and coach
- Soumya Naâmane Guessousb. 1955MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan sociologist
- Soumaya Akaabouneb. 1974MAMoroccan-American actress
- Soumaya Mestirib. 1976TNTunisian philosopher
- Soumaya Jouinib. 1983TNTunisian actress
- Soumaya Keynesb. 1989GBBritish economist
- Soumaya Dahechb. 1990TNTunisian actress
- Soumaya Laamirib. 1995TNTunisian association football player
- Soumaya AhouaouiDutch actress
- Soumaya Rammeh RommaniTNTunisian researcher
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 39 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 177 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Soumaya?
- We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Soumaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Soumaya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.8 thousand people bear Soumaya in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled soumaya.
- How common is Soumaya compared with other names?
- In Mayotte, Soumaya is the 14th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
- Is Soumaya a male or female name?
- Soumaya 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
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, “Soumaya” — the 14th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.