Meaning not yet researched.
Soul: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,318 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,318 in 2022; #2,358 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Soul in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,358 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,318.
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Soul: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,318 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 62 (2022).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Soul, making it the 2,358th most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #2,340 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 61 boys named Soul in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,318, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #8,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Soul, making it the 3,967th most common girls’ name of the year, down 581 places from #3,386 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 47 girls named Soul in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,204, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #11,722 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Soul in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 6 babies. In all, 783 US babies have been given the name, 41% of them girls and 59% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 555 babies named Soul.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 365 US boys were named Soul; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Soul ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,445 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sol (12,382 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Soul in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,445 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,517 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,429 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,905 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,967 | 59 | #2,358 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,386 | 61 | #2,340 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,320 | 45 | #2,840 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,757 | 62 | #2,318 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,204 | 49 | #2,644 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,295 | 30 | #3,641 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,664 | 24 | #4,317 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,088 | 18 | #5,285 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,604 | 7 | #10,609 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,673 | 10 | #8,081 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,722 | 9 | #8,639 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,835 | 12 | #6,994 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,975 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #8,048 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,029 | — | — |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,878 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,823 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,273 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,742 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,438 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,179 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).