Soū
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soū is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.
- USUnited States1 in 502K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 502K (inferred from the name graph)
662 people, 2020
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sou in US United States, ID Indonesia, TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.
Sources 5
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soū counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 662 | 1 in 502K | 985 | Sou | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 25 | 1 in 691K | 18 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | — | Sou | 20 |
| TN Tunisia | — | — | — | Sou | 3 |
662 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Soū mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Soū a male or female name?
- Soū is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Soū have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 662 people named Soū, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sou.
- Where is Soū most common?
- Soū is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 502 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Soū?
- In the United States, the national register counted 662 people named Soū in 2020, about 1 in 502 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Soū”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.