Soyoun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Soyoun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 581as 소연(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 315Kas Wu
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.1M
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 Soyoun 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈89,000 named 소연, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Soyeon in BR Brazil, AU Australia, SG Singapore, Wu in US United States, CN China and 소연 in KR South Korea.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soyoun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #63 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 581 | 534 | 소연 | 102 |
| US United States | — | 1,057as Wu | 1 in 315K | 98K | Wu | 128 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Wu | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 422as Wu | 1 in 502K | 539 | Soyeon | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 159as Wu | 1 in 315K | 8.9K | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 470K | — | Soyeon | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Soyeon | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 864 | — | 2 |
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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 182 | #40,711 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Soyoun a male or female name?
- Soyoun is a female 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 Soyoun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 thousand people named 소연 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Soyoun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,057 people named Wu in 2020, about 1 in 315 thousand residents.
- How common is Soyoun compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Soyoun is the 63rd most common given name of 67,037 given names 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/soyounThe 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, “Soyoun” — the 63rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.