Soy
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soy is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: family, kin, tribe, people.
- INIndia1 in 66K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 134K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 168K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21K ●
- Sources
- 57 ●
- 1 in 66K ◐
across 11 countries
20K records
Official registry-verified
India
Meaning & origin●
family, kin, tribe, people
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 20,025 | 19K rec. | 1 in 66K | 20K | Soy | 57 |
| US United States | 538△ | 233 rec. | 1 in 618K | 538 | Soy | 32 |
| ES Spain | 285△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 175K | 285 | Soy | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 129△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 134K | 129 | — | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | 118 | 103 rec. | — | — | Soy | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 50△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 168K | 50 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 22 | — | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 20 | — | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | 15 | 15 rec. | — | — | Soy | 5 |
| PE Peru | 13 | 7 rec. | — | — | Soy | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | — | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 6△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | 1 |
Roughly 20K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 66K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi50K45%
- Turkish19K17%
- 17K16%
- Swahili4.8K4%
- English4.5K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 50,314 | 45% |
| Turkish | 19,467 | 17% |
| 17,276 | 16% | |
| Swahili | 4,815 | 4% |
| English | 4,528 | 4% |
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●
Soy 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, A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of ser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sjm, who; whom; what (when asking someone’s name)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Azerbaijani, stock (lineage, family, ancestry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, buddy; close male friend; boy
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Josep Soy i Cambrasb. 1888ESSpanish sculptor (1888-1935)
- Joaquim Soy Espuñab. 1924ESSpanish bullfighter
- Xavier Soy Solerb. 1950ESSpanish politician
- Janum Singh Soyb. 1950INIndian Ho-language writer
- Antoni Soy i Casalsb. 1950ESCatalan politician, economist and university professor
- Cristina Soy i Aumatellb. 1971ESSpanish library scientist (1971-)
- Gabriel Casas SoyESSpanish politician
- Sini SoyINIndian Ho politician
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #613 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 979 | #21 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 538 | #40,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 513 | #44,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 455 | #44,497 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 285 | #12,564 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 285 | #12,540 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 209 | #30,890 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 129 | #15,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 71 | #30,890 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,483 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 92 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Soy?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Soy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Soy have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Soy in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled soy.
- Where is Soy most common?
- Soy is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 66 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Soy mean?
- Recorded meaning: family, kin, tribe, people
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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, “Soy”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.