Soda
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soda is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
- USUnited States1 in 497K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- ITItaly≈1 in 135K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 167K | listed | — | 14 |
| IN India | 936 | 1 in 1.4M | 936 | — | 23 |
| US United States | 669 | 1 in 497K | 722 | Soda | 174 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 4 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 317 | 1 in 668K | 317 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 254 | 1 in 17K | 254 | — | 1 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 10 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Soda 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.
Happiness
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swahili, name form in Hausa-Fulani usage
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Italian, parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, soda (sodium bicarbonate; usually baking soda)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, soda, sodium carbonate, washing soda
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)
- Soda Osamub. 1928JPJapanese writer (1928-2024)
- Kōichi Sodab. 1935JPJapanese writer (1935–2005)
- Osamu Sodab. 1939JPJapanese agronomist
- Hirohisa Sodab. 1947JPJapanese screenwriter
- Kenji Sodab. 1948JPJapanese basketball player (1948-)
- Makoto Sōdab. 1950JPJapanese singer and actress
- Masahito Sodab. 1968JPJapanese mangaka
- Kazuhiro Sodab. 1970JPJapanese documentary filmmaker (born 1970)
- Gō Sōdab. 1975JPJapanese mangaka
- Miho Sodab. 1984JPJapanese seiyū
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 936 | #5,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 722 | #33,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 669 | #33,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 656 | #32,939 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 494 | #7,117 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 317 | #25,204 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,678 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Soda mean, and where does it come from?
- Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Soda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Soda in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soda is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soda?
- In India, the national register counted 936 people named Soda, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sodaThe 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, “Soda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.