SoE
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
SoE is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 194(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K
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 SoE 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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
SoE 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #9 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | listed | SoE | 113 |
| US United States | — | 7,456as So | 1 in 45K | 7.8K | SoE | 169 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | SoE | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,069as So | 1 in 52K | 4.1K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | #508 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | SoE | 31 |
| SG Singapore | #531 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | SoE | 57 |
| FI Finland | — | 138 | 1 in 40K | 138 | — | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
SoE is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, soe, inter j. utterance of one who eats food which is pep- pered too much
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In sc, Variant first-person singular present indicative of èssere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, would (modal verb) (see sille)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of soar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, to be unlucky
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)
- Heidi Soeb. 1941EEEstonian economist (born 1941)
- Valerie Soeb. 1961USAmerican artist, writer and experimental filmmaker (born 1961)
- Kent Soeb. 1972DKresearcher
- Mihkel Soeb. 1984EEEstonian cinematographer (born 1984)
- Paul Oskar SoeEEEstonian child actor (fl. 2006-)
- Indrek SoeEEEstonian sound designer (fl. 2010-)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 415 | #47,939 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 138 | #9,976 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 SoE mean, and where does it come from?
- a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce SoE?
- A machine transcription gives /səʊ/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- In which country does SoE have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 292 thousand people named SoE in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled SoE.
- How common is the name SoE?
- In Finland, the national register counted 138 people named SoE, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is SoE compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), SoE is the 9th most common surname of 12,945 surnames 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/soeThe 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, “SoE” — the 9th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.