Soest

loc · Latin script

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

Soest is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany. Recorded meaning: from place name Soest; also forms with -meyer and derivatives.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • NLNetherlands
  • PLPoland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from place name Soest; also forms with -meyer and derivatives

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Soest counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Soest is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—listedSoest63
NL Netherlands—34Soest89
PL Poland——Soest2
US United States—160Soest119
NO Norway—8—3

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: the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Soest is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, s. nach Sosse Soff(el): s. Suppe und So- phia; Sof(f)ke: s. sowa Sögel, Sögling: s. Sock

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, ON. Westf.: Soest, | meyer; Soster, Soost- (mann), Sustmann, Saust Soet|beer, ebier: s. süß und Bier Sothmann Spatto Sothmann, Sott|: s. Sod

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

1400160018002000Johann von Soest, b. 1500Gerard Soest, b. 1600Heinrich Soest, b. 1897Johannes Leendert van Soest, b. 1898Andrea Soest, b. 1950Arthur van Soest, b. 1958Marieke van Soest, b. 1987

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Soest
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000160#103,706
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010148#117,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020146#123,817
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200734#38,459
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#60,014
DE GermanyDeutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Soest mean, and where does it come from?
from place name Soest; also forms with -meyer and derivatives Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Soest have the most bearers?
Soest is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled soest.

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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, “Soest”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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