Somphone
Origin
Lao
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
fitting blessing (som = worthy, fitting + phone = blessing, the Lao cognate of the Thai element phorn); the French-era Lao romanization spells the blessing element phone, which reads smoothly on an American roster
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Somphone has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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