Sören

Locally spelled Søren in DK Denmark, SE Sweden, NO Norway and 1 more, Soren in US United States and Soeren in BJ Benin.

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.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Sören is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• German82%

  Sören Kierkegaard, dänischer

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Swedish13%

  a male given name derived from Latin Severinus

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Sören är en nordisk form av → Severin. Till Sverige har formen Sören kommit från Danmark där det är ett vanligt namn. Förutom i de södra landskapen blev det först efter 1940 frekvent i Sverige. En känd namnbärare är den danske filosofen Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 23 oktober, till minne av Severin, en biskop i Köln (död 399).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Sören is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Swedish given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Icelandic

  Also written Soren

• Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Mexico, Spain

  Also written Soren, Sore'N, Sorén, Sóren, Soreñ

28 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.

Sören is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Scandinavian (Danish) form of Severinus (see SEVERINO ).

  as a word

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.

• Søren Kamb. 1921DEDanish Waffen-SS officer wanted for murder (1921-2015)
• Sören Claesonb. 1959SEOlympic wrestler
• Sören Sennb. 1969CHSwiss film director and author
• Sören Prévostb. 1969FRFrench actor
• Gunnar Strömmerb. 1972SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (born 1972)
• Sören Bartolb. 1974DEGerman politician
• Sören Linkb. 1976DEGerman politician (SPD), mayor of Duisburg
• Sören Pellmannb. 1977DEGerman politician (The Left)
• Sven-Sören Christophersenb. 1985DEGerman handballer
• Sören Optib. 1997SRbadminton player

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Sören?

A machine transcription gives /zøːʁən/ (IPA) for German.

What are other forms of the name Sören?

In the etymology graph, Severino, Rino and Seweryn are forms of the same name in other languages.

What does the name Sören mean, and where does it come from?

a male given name derived from Latin Severinus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Sören have the most bearers?

In Denmark, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Søren, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Sören most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sören is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 722 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.

Is Sören a male or female name?

Sören is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Finland (DVV) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia).

How common is the name Sören?

In Sweden, the national register counted 14,135 people named Sören, about 1 in 722 residents.

How common is Sören compared with other names?

In Denmark, Sören is the 12th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.