Soete

surname · Latin script

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

/sɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 168K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 9.2K
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 118K

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 Soete 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.

Belgium (measured from records)

1,271 people, 2008

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Soete 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 Soete is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium1,2711 in 9.2K1.3KSoete54
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈860 est.≈1 in 118K—Soete1
FR France≈400 est.≈1 in 168K57Soete131
BR Brazil238as Sote1 in 890K238—1
DE Germany≈170 est.≈1 in 480KlistedSoete33
LR Liberia≈19 est.≈1 in 263K—Soete1

1,271 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

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

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Belgium, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Söete

  • Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Soetë, Søtë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Soëte

31 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)

18001850190019502000Adolphe Soete, b. 1819Andreas Soete, b. 1839Jules Soete, b. 1857Richilde Soete, b. 1872Walter Soete, b. 1912Gerard Soete, b. 1920Ann Soete, b. 1959Han Soete, b. 1968Daan Soete, b. 1994

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Soete, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Soete
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.3K#910
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081.3K#974
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—114#57,408
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195180—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194166—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197163—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196161—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190134—

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Soete?
A machine transcription gives /sɛt/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Soete have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Soete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soete.
Where is Soete most common?
Soete is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Soete?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1,271 people named Soete in 2008, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Soete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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