Soë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Soë is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sō (“large tub, vat”), from Old English sā (“a tub, pail, vessel”) and/or Old Norse sár (“large cask”) (acc.
- UYUruguay1 in 77K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 174K
- NLNetherlands1 in 576K
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 Soë 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)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
2,343 named So, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled So in US United States, DE Germany, HK Hong Kong and Sô in DZ Algeria.
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)- Middle Englishsō“large tub“large tub, vat”(measured from records)
- Old Englishsā“a tub“a tub, pail, vessel”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*saihaz“bucket“bucket, vat”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*seyk-“to reach“to reach, grasp”(measured from records)
From Middle English sō (“large tub, vat”), from Old English sā (“a tub, pail, vessel”) and/or Old Norse sár (“large cask”) (acc. s.sá), both from Proto-Germanic *saihaz (“bucket, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to reach, grasp”). Cognate with Swedish så (“large wooden water vessel”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Soë 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 | — | 2,343as So | 1 in 142K | 7.8K | So | 383 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Sô | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 111as So | 1 in 92K | 111 | — | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 83as So | 1 in 2.6M | 4.1K | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | So | 87 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 44 | 1 in 77K | 44 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 138 | — | 8 |
| HK Hong Kong | #214 | — | — | — | So | 111 |
2,343 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Soë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English sō (“large tub, vat”), from Old English sā (“a tub, pail, vessel”) and/or Old Norse sár (“large cask”) (acc. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Soë a male or female name?
- Soë 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 Soë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named So, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soë is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 77 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soë?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 44 people named Soë, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Soë compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Soë is the 214th most common given name of 23,276 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/so%C3%ABThe 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, “Soë” — the 214th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.