Sonam (བསོད་ནམས) is the Tibetan word for "merit" or "good karma" — the accumulated positive actions of past lives. A unisex Tibetan-Bhutanese name.
Sonam Kapoor (born 1985) is the Indian actress; Sonam Wangchuk is the Ladakhi engineer-innovator.
Sonam does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sonam reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.