Soulier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soulier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages, from a deriv.
- USUnited States1 in 549K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 19K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 112K
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
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
606 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages, from a deriv. of OF soule plat¬ form, storey (L solium throne, dais). 2. metonymic occu¬ pational name for a shoemaker, from OF soldier shoe, sandal (LL subleldrius open sandal, from sublet arch of the foot). Vars.: Soullier, Soul(i)e.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soulier 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 | 606 | 1 in 549K | 606 | Soulier | 143 |
| UY Uruguay | 176 | 1 in 19K | 176 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 105 | 1 in 433K | 105 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 75 | 1 in 112K | 75 | — | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 60 | 1 in 288K | 60 | Soulier | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Soulier | 6 |
606 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Soulier is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, shoe, boot (protective covering for the foot)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-cha, shoe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, souffleur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Charles Soulierb. 1816FRFrench photographer, active second half of the 19th century (1816–1886)
- Édouard Soulierb. 1870FRFrench politician
- Jean Pierre Soulierb. 1915FRFrench physician (1915–2003)
- Léon-Raymond Soulierb. 1924FRFrench Roman Catholic Bishop (1924–2016)
- André Soulierb. 1933FRFrench politician
- Nicolas Soulierb. 1951FRFrench architect
- Ayerdhalb. 1959FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1959–2015)
- Frédéric Soulierb. 1965FRFrench politician
- Fabrice Soulierb. 1969FRFrench poker player
- Yannick Soulierb. 1978FRFrench actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Soulier come from?
- lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages, from a deriv. of OF soule plat¬ form, storey (L solium throne, dais). 2. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Soulier mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived in a house with more than one storey, something of a rarity in the Middle Ages, from a deriv.
- In which country does Soulier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 606 people named Soulier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soulier.
- Where is Soulier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soulier is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soulier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 606 people named Soulier in 2010, about 1 in 549 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soulierThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Soulier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.