The name Soma is a girl's name of Hindi, Sanskrit origin meaning "to extract".

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Appearing in an early Hindi scripture, The Vedas, Soma is the name of both a ritual drink or elixir, and of a deity, often connected to the moon god Chandra. The drink is sometimes interpreted as having the power to grant immortality or divine qualities, but its actual, more literal meaning is "extract" or "distil" in Sanskrit.
 
 Used as a unisex name among Hindu parents, it is also a Japanese and Hungarian boy name, associated with the colour blue, reality, and the wind, and the dogwood tree respectively.

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The name Soma is a boy's name of Hungarian, Japanese, Hindi origin meaning "Dogwood tree; elixir, to extract; sound of the wind + genuine".

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Popular in Hungary, but rare elsewhere, Soma is a botanical boy name, relating to the dogwood tree, notable for its white blooms and red twigs. Pronounced as SHO-maw, it ranked at #36 in its native country in a recent count.
 
Soma may also be used among Hindu parents, due to its appearance as a ritual drink or an elixir in the early Hindu scripture, the Vedas. Associated with immortality, it comes from Sanskrit, meaning "to extract", and the drink is personified in the scriptures as a Vedic God, often related to the moon god Chandra. Used as a unisex name, it would be pronounces so-ma. 
 
Finally, Soma, also written as Sōma, can be a Japanese name, meaning "sound of the wind, sudden" or "pale, blue" combined with "real, genuine". It appears in the animated series Castlevania, where all its various meanings may be perceived relevant to the character, a reincarnation of Dracula.

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