Søren
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name traditionally popular in Denmark
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Søren is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 154(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.6Kas Sören
- USUnited States1 in 41Kas Soren
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Søren itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154 (inferred from the name graph)
38,087 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sören in DE Germany, Soren in US United States and Soeren in BJ Benin.
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)
a male given name traditionally popular in Denmark
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Søren 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #12 | 38,087 | 1 in 154 | 38K | Søren | 133 |
| SE Sweden | — | 14,135as Sören | 1 in 722 | 14K | Søren | 33 |
| DE Germany | #539 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 1 | Sören | 137 |
| US United States | — | 8,135as Soren | 1 in 41K | 7.6K | Soren | 275 |
| BJ Benin | #469 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Soeren | 4 |
| NO Norway | #925 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1.4K | Søren | 34 |
| GL Greenland | #3 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 216 | Søren | 11 |
38,087 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
Søren 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, an expletive used to express displeasure; damn!
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)
- Søren Georg Abelb. 1772NONorwegian priest and politician (1772-1820)
- Søren Kierkegaardb. 1813DKDanish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
- S. P. L. Sørensenb. 1868DKnot in their usual nameDanish chemist
- Thue Christiansenb. 1940GLnot in their usual nameGreenlandic politician and designer of the Greenland flag (1940–2022)
- Søren Kragh-Jacobsenb. 1947DKDanish film director, musician, and song writer
- Søren Louis Pilmarkb. 1955DKDanish actor
- Søren Lerbyb. 1958DKDanish footballer
- Søren Rastedb. 1969DKDanish musician
- Søren Coldingb. 1972DKDanish footballer
- Søren Larsenb. 1981DKDanish footballer
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 38K | #7 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,334 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1987 | 583 | #14 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1985 | 570 | #12 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1989 | 565 | #17 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1986 | 561 | #11 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1988 | 546 | #18 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1992 | 504 | #24 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1990 | 479 | #21 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1993 | 442 | #26 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1991 | 422 | #25 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1994 | 394 | #29 |
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 Søren mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name traditionally popular in Denmark Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Søren?
- In the etymology graph, Severino, Rino and Seweryn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Søren a male or female name?
- Søren is a male 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.
- In which country does Søren have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Søren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled søren.
- Where is Søren most common?
- Søren is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 154 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Søren?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 38,087 people named Søren, about 1 in 154 residents.
- How common is Søren compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Søren is the 12th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Søren?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B8renThe 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, “Søren” — the 12th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.