Soon
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Soon has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1924. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1949, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Soon, 1956
1 in 589,000
Soon over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Soon over time
In 1956, Soon went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Soon?
Soon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1956
- 1 in 589,000
- 7 of 4,122,003 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1956
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 408,166 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Soon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 408,166 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Soons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Soon was born before 1947 — so the typical Soon is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 55.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Soon rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1949 (8)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Soon
Soon is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 85.2% against Soon's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Soon is used
Across 1910–2025, Soon was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 50,614 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kansas1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Soon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Soon around the world
Where Soon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1993–1993#519in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Soon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Soon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Soon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.