Soon-Yi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soon-Yi is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 27th most common surname. Soon-Yi is also written Сания in Cyrillic, 선아 in Korean (Hangul) and Սոնա in Armenian.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 370as Sani(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 400as Şen
- FIFinland1 in 1.9Kas Suni
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 Soon-Yi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #345 (measured from records)
- 12 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 459 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 370 (inferred from the name graph)
≈630,000 named Sani, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est., as Sani
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Soon-Yi in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Korean (Hangul) and 9 more
(measured from records)21 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sana in PK Pakistan, MA Morocco, Sani in NG Nigeria, ID Indonesia, Soni in IN India and Şen in TR Türkiye.
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 the surname Soon-Yi is found
(measured from records)Soon-Yi 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 | — | ≈630,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | listed | Sani | 63 |
| IN India | #78 | 218,303as Sen | 1 in 6.1K | 218K | Soni | 293 |
| TR Türkiye | #27 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | register #94 | Şen | 125 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Sani | 151 |
| PK Pakistan | #597 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | listed | Sana | 133 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16,831as Sena | 1 in 2.7K | 17K | Jona | 39 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Sana | 96 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,007as Suni | 1 in 1.9K | 26K | Sanna | 10 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Insoonib. 1957KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Soon-Yi a male or female name?
- Soon-Yi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Soon-Yi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 629 thousand people named Sani in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Türkiye, Indonesia and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Soon-Yi?
- In India, the national register counted 218,303 people named Sen, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Soon-Yi compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Soon-Yi is the 27th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soon-yiThe 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, “Soon-Yi” — the 27th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.