Soes

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: second-person singular present subjunctive of soar

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Soes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1Mas Sos(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 751K
  • HRCroatia1 in 17Kas Šoš

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Soes 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,838 named Sos

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 751K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SosLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Sos in US United States.

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)

second-person singular present subjunctive of soar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Soes is read(measured from records)

Soes is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish40%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Soes in Spanish.

  • English25%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Soes in English.

  • Portuguese7.6%

    second-person singular present subjunctive of soar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Dutch6.3%

    choux pastry

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Soes 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 Soes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,838as Sos1 in 75K2.8K——
ES Spain602as Sos1 in 83K602Soes12
US United States318as Sos1 in 1M386Sos169
HR Croatia255as Šoš1 in 17K255——
PL Poland75as Sós1 in 510K42—1
NL Netherlands231 in 751K23Soes11
CH Switzerland14as Sos1 in 600K14—4

2,838 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)

Soes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Søs, Śoes, Śøs

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria

    Also written Sôës, Şoeş

23 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Soes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Estonian, inessive singular of susi

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Soes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—43#116,436
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200723#46,534
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Soes mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular present subjunctive of soar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Soes have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Sos, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Soes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soes is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 751 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Soes?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23 people named Soes in 2007, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.

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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, “Soes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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