Soul
#2,358 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Soul has been given to 783 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,358 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 62 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% boys, 41% girls all-time.
Babies named Soul, 2025
1 in 56,200
Soul 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Soul over time
In 2025, Soul went to 39% girls and 61% 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 Soul?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 56,200
- 59 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 28,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,358
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 38,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Soul sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Souls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Soul was born before 2021 — so the typical Soul is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 66.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 461
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 66.4% of all recorded uses (306).
Is Soul 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
- −18
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,280
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,276
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 6.56×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.2%
- Peak was 2022 (62)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Soul
Soul is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 72.6% against Soul's 0.02%.
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 Soul is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Soul was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 659,016 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Soul has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Soul is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Soul was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 665,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Soul has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Soul around the world
Where Soul 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.
- England & Wales1998–2025#1,897in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#482in 2023
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia1976–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Soul by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Soul
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Soul
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.