Soy
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: family, kin, tribe, people
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 66K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands1 in 134K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
20,025 people
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
family, kin, tribe, people
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Soy is read(measured from records)
Soy is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Soy in Hindi.
- Turkish22%
family, kin, tribe, people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.8%
A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 20,025 | 1 in 66K | 20K | Soy | 61 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Soy | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Soy | 7 |
| US United States | 538 | 1 in 618K | 538 | Soy | 30 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 540K | — | Soy | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 129 | 1 in 134K | 129 | Soy | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | — | 1 |
20,025 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Soy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of ser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sjm, who; whom; what (when asking someone’s name)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Azerbaijani, stock (lineage, family, ancestry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, buddy; close male friend; boy
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)
- Josep Soy i Cambrasb. 1888ESSpanish sculptor (1888-1935)
- Joaquim Soy Espuñab. 1924ESSpanish bullfighter
- Xavier Soy Solerb. 1950ESSpanish politician
- Janum Singh Soyb. 1950INIndian Ho-language writer
- Antoni Soy i Casalsb. 1950ESCatalan politician, economist and university professor
- Cristina Soy i Aumatellb. 1971ESSpanish library scientist (1971-)
- Gabriel Casas SoyESSpanish politician
- Sini SoyINIndian Ho politician
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #613 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 979 | #21 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 538 | #40,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 513 | #44,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 455 | #44,497 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 129 | #15,512 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Soy mean, and where does it come from?
- family, kin, tribe, people Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Soy have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Soy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soy.
- How common is the name Soy?
- In India, the national register counted 20,025 people named Soy, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soyThe 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, “Soy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.