Soon
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soon is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in English and Korean, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short in length of time from the present.
- MYMalaysia1 in 3.2K◐
- SGSingapore1 in 5.9K
- AUAustralia1 in 25K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.5K ●
- Sources
- 220 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 8 countries
118K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Short in length of time from the present.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #201 | 20,024 | 22K rec. | — | — | Soon | 106 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,652 | 6.3K rec. | — | 1 | Soon | 108 |
| US United States | — | 4,139 | 74K rec. | 1 in 80K | 4.1K | Soon | 220 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,117 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Soon | 66 |
| SG Singapore | #318 | 1,822 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Soon | 124 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,055 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Soon | 77 |
| DE Germany | — | 434 | 566 rec. | — | — | Soon | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | 393 | 439 rec. | — | — | Soon | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | 304 | 2K rec. | — | — | Soon | 44 |
| SE Sweden | — | 235△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 43K | 235 | — | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | 210 | 221 rec. | — | — | Soon | 10 |
| AO Angola | #298 | 203 | 221 rec. | — | — | Soon | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English100K36%
- Korean76K27%
- Malay46K17%
- Spanish9.5K3%
- 8.2K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 99,807 | 36% |
| Korean | 76,038 | 27% |
| Malay | 46,307 | 17% |
| Spanish | 9,515 | 3% |
| 8,201 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Soon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, kaka, kakakaka, hiimbu, ni, sangi, wuéi
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Khmer, to model (with a plastic such as clay), to shape, to mold. fUSfUQlHS to model a wax statue
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, vein, blood vessel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Wolof, to be yellow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2019 | 10 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 1999–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sukjong of Joseonb. 1661KRnot in their usual name19th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- Prince Successor Mun Hyob. 1782KRnot in their usual nameCrown prince of the Kingdom of Korea (Joseon)
- Soon Chob. 1928KRSouth Korean politician
- Soon Aukuyapisudhib. 1953CAbadminton player
- Young Sukb. 1954KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean martial artist
- C.S. Eliot Kangb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican diplomat
- Sun Xunb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (born 1980)
- Hae-Sun KangKRnot in their usual nameKorean violinist
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●
Attested in 34 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #3,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 911 | #3,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 777 | #31,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 750 | #30,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 706 | #31,085 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 568 | #1,987 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 235 | #4,672 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 160 | #409 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 143 | #434 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 107 | #17,160 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 71 | #42,188 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Soon?
- We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Soon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Soon have the most bearers?
- Soon is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled soon.
- How common is Soon compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Soon is the 201st most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Soon a male or female name?
- Soon 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.
- What does the name Soon mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short in length of time from the present.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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” — the 201st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.