So-Yeon

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

So-Yeon 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.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 581as 소연(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 315Kas Wu
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 398K

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 So-Yeon 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)

≈89,000 named 소연, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 398K (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

So-YeonLatin(measured from records)
소연Hangul(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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)

So-Yeon 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.

Where So-Yeon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#63≈89,000 est.≈1 in 581534소연102
US United States—1,057as Wu1 in 315K98KWu128
CN China—≈960 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Wu29
BR Brazil—422as Wu1 in 502K539Soyeon5
ES Spain—159as Wu1 in 315K8.9K—3
AU Australia—≈54 est.≈1 in 470K—Soyeon30
PL Poland—231 in 1.7M447—2
SG Singapore—≈16 est.≈1 in 398K—Soyeon7

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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

So-Yeon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Soyeon

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Soyeon

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China

    Also written Soyeon

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Kim So-yeon, b. 1970Yi So-Yeon, b. 1978Kim So-yeon, b. 1980Jang So-yeon, b. 1980Lee So-yeon, b. 1982Soyeon Jeong, b. 1983Park So-yeon, b. 1987Ji So-Yun, b. 1991Park So-youn, b. 1997Jeon Soyeon, b. 1998
  • Kim So-yeonb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean manager, translator and interpreter
  • Yi So-Yeonb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean astronaut
  • Kim So-yeonb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, 1980 (born 1980)
  • Jang So-yeonb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Lee So-yeonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Soyeon Jeongb. 1983KRSouth Korean writer, educator, translator, and lawyer
  • Park So-yeonb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, member of girl group T-ara
  • Ji So-Yunb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Park So-younb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
  • Jeon Soyeonb. 1998KRSouth Korean singer and rapper (born 1998)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists So-Yeon under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is So-Yeon a male or female name?
So-Yeon 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 So-Yeon 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 So-Yeon?
In Poland, the national register counted 23 people named So-Yeon in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
How common is So-Yeon compared with other names?
In South Korea, So-Yeon is the 63rd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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-Yeon” — the 63rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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