So'
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
So' is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-Europ.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 92K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 92K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 112K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
2,343 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled So in US United States, DZ Algeria and Số in VN Vietnam.
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 Englishso(measured from records)
- Old Englishswā“so“so, as, the same, such, that”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*swā(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*swa“so”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*swēreflexive pronomial stem(measured from records)
From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem). Cognate with Scots sae (“so”), West Frisian sa (“so”), Low German so (“so”), Dutch zo (“so”), German so (“so”), Danish så (“so”), Norwegian Nynorsk so, Swedish så ("so, such that"), Old Latin suad (“so”), Albanian sa (“how much, so, as”), Ancient Greek ὡς (hōs, “as”), Urdu سو (sō, “hence”).
Sources 7
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
So' 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.
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
So' is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In roa-tar, first-person singular present indicative of essere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, first-person singular present indicative of èssere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, first-person singular present indicative of èser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sdc, short for sóiu: his/her; of his/of hers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuu, Dry (dry in the sun)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, My (younger brother)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name So' mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-Europ… Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 5 other sources.
- Is So' a male or female name?
- So' is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does So' 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 it is most often spelled so.
- How common is the name So'?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,343 people named So' in 2020, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is So' compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, So' is the 386th most common given name of 73,918 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'The 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, “So'” — the 386th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.