Sosan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Korean Sŏn Buddhist monk and author Hyujong (1520-1604); born Ch'oe Yosin, led volunteer monks in the Imjin Wars

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

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

Sosan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 13M(inferred from the name graph)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 161K
  • SESweden1 in 262K

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.

United States (measured from records)

214 people, 2020

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Şoşan in TM Turkmenistan.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Korean Sŏn Buddhist monk and author Hyujong (1520-1604); born Ch'oe Yosin, led volunteer monks in the Imjin Wars.

Sources 1

  • Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sosan 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 Sosan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2141 in 1.6M214—1
SE Sweden391 in 262K39——
TM Turkmenistan≈34 est.≈1 in 161K—Şoşan1
NL Netherlands91 in 1.9M9—2
TR Türkiye≈6 est.≈1 in 13M—Sosan13
FI Finland61 in 929K35——
DK Denmark51 in 1.2M5——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

214 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Sosan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, United States, Iraq

    Languages: Arabic, English, German

    Also written Sozan, Sözan, Soezan, Şoşan, Śôžān

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

    Also written Şoşan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Šōšan, Šôšān

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Şoşan, Sösan, Sosán

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Şoşan

  • Bangla given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Cyprus

    Also written Shoshan, Shashan, শ্মশান, Şoşan, Shamshan

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria

    Also written Šošan

32 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)

Sosan 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 Korean, Person/name entry; details not given on page.

    as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary

  • In bzq, to stop up, plug with a cork or stopper

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Sosan जी,Hi Sosan, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Sosan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Sosan mean, and where does it come from?
Korean Sŏn Buddhist monk and author Hyujong (1520-1604); born Ch'oe Yosin, led volunteer monks in the Imjin Wars. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
How do you pronounce Sosan?
A machine transcription gives /zoʊzən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Sosan a male or female name?
Sosan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sosan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 214 people named Sosan, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sosan?
In the United States, the national register counted 214 people named Sosan in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million 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, “Sosan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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