Soile
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̠o̞i̯le̞/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A 19th century coinage, possibly from soilu (“glimmer”), or from an archaic Finnish word for "flame of aurora".
- FIFinland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 35K
- BJBenin≈1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,552 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A 19th century coinage, possibly from soilu (“glimmer”), or from an archaic Finnish word for "flame of aurora".
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soile 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.
4,552 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Soile is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Obsolete form of soil.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Soile Kaukorantab. 1942FIFinnish translator
- Soile Yli-Mäyryb. 1950FIFinnish painter
- Soile Poutiainenb. 1950FIFinnish judge
- Soile Isokoskib. 1957FIFinnish soprano
- Soile Malmb. 1957FIFinnish association football player
- Soile Ojalab. 1963FIFinnish association football player
- Soile Kalmarib. 1969FIFinnish association football player
- Tarja Turunenb. 1977FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Soile Tapiob. 2000DEresearcher
- Soile Jokipii-Lukkariresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-8935-1469
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.7K | #305 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 290 | #4,012 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 271 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 267 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 266 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 266 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 265 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 265 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 263 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 261 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 257 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Soile mean, and where does it come from?
- A 19th century coinage, possibly from soilu (“glimmer”), or from an archaic Finnish word for "flame of aurora". Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Soile?
- A machine transcription gives /s̠o̞i̯le̞/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Soile a male or female name?
- Soile 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.
- What are other forms of the name Soile?
- In the etymology graph, Soila and Soili are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Soile have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Soile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soile.
- Where is Soile most common?
- Soile is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Soile?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,552 people named Soile, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Soile compared with other names?
- In Finland, Soile is the 347th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soileThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Soile” — the 347th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.