Soula

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular past historic of souler

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

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

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 195K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 347K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

131 people

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular past historic of souler

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Soula 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 Soula is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina1311 in 347K131——
CZ Czechia551 in 195K55——
BR Brazil271 in 7.8M27—1
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21—2
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11——
NL Netherlands101 in 1.7M10Soula4

131 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Soula is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Soulá, Sôûlà, Soülã, Söülã, Soulā

  • Greek given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Cyprus

    Also written Σούλα, Σουλα, Soúla, Soila

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šoula

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Šoula

43 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)

Soula 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 Esperanto, relating or pertaining to soul music

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

  • In Latvian, Skandināvu mitoloģijā - Saules personifikācija, mēness dieva Māni māsa

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

188019001920194019601980Camille Soula, b. 1888Daniel Soula, b. 1906Marc Soula, b. 1945Paul Soula, b. 1946Marie-Christine Soula, b. 1951Jean-Marc Soula, b. 1961Gilles Soula, b. 1965Christian Soula, b. 1965

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Soula
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—131—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—27#160,000
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#83,399
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21#80,648
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200710#64,528

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Soula mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular past historic of souler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Soula have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 131 people named Soula, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Soula most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soula is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 195 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Soula?
In Argentina, the national register counted 131 people named Soula, about 1 in 347 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, “Soula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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