Sŏu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sŏu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 76th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of solidus and soldo.
- HUHungary1 in 693as Zoé(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 706as Zoja
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.2Kas Zoe
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 Sŏu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 693 (inferred from the name graph)
125,886 named Zoe, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, as Zoé
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zoe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AR Argentina and 2 more, Zoé in FR France and Zoë in NL Netherlands.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sŏu 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 | — | 125,886as Zoe | 1 in 2.6K | 125K | Zoe | 496 |
| GB United Kingdom | #241 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 471 | Zoe | 321 |
| AR Argentina | #400 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 3.5K | Zoe | 87 |
| AU Australia | #241 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 579 | Zoe | 263 |
| FR France | #469 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 68K | Zoé | 210 |
| HU Hungary | — | 14,097as Zoé | 1 in 693 | 14K | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | #664 | 11,632as Zoë | 1 in 1.5K | 12K | Zoë | 88 |
| HK Hong Kong | #76 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zoe | 82 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,978as Zoja | 1 in 706 | 3.1K | — | 4 |
125,886 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Sŏu 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 Sŏu a male or female name?
- Sŏu 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 Sŏu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 126 thousand people named Zoe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sŏu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sŏu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 693 people named Zoé.
- How common is the name Sŏu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125,886 people named Zoe in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Sŏu compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Sŏu is the 76th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C5%8FuThe 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, “Sŏu” — the 76th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.