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    The surname Soy

    A Khmer nickname surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S000

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Soy is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    Khmer origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname. * Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).

    Soy is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 19 Khmer surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 538 people named Soy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 455.

    #40,610
    rank among US surnames
    538
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +18.2%
    change since 2000 (was #44,497)

    Who is named Soy

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    58% of people named Soy identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 29% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 58%
    • White (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Soy

    Soy has the Soundex code S000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S000.

    Other Khmer surnames

    All 19 Khmer surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Soy come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname. * Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).
    How common is the surname Soy?
    538 people in the United States had the surname Soy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Soy?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Soy identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 29% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Soy?
    Soy is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Soy getting more or less common?
    More common. 455 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, up 18%.