Soren
Soren was given to 665 boys in 2025, #464 among boys’ names; 11,625 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Soren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Soren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Soren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Soren is “a male given name from Danish, an anglicized spelling of Danish Søren.”
Borrowed from Danish Søren.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Soren?
#464 among boys’ names, 2025
Soren rose from #574 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.26 to 0.39 per 1,000.
703 babies in 2025, the peak
Soren peaked in 2025, when 703 babies were given it (665 boys, #464 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 507 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 665 | #464 | 0.39 |
| 2024 | 507 | #571 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 548 | #541 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 562 | #533 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 549 | #536 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 563 | #509 | 0.33 |
| 2019 | 510 | #554 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 492 | #559 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 469 | #580 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 499 | #567 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 489 | #574 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 411 | #643 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 371 | #655 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 388 | #626 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 347 | #681 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 317 | #726 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 319 | #733 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 317 | #730 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 297 | #750 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 252 | #811 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 203 | #890 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 208 | #855 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 170 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 120 | #1,174 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,282 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,482 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,324 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,455 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,450 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,628 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,829 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,248 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,293 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,763 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,971 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,574 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,021 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,580 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,948 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,547 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,262 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,671 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,694 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Soren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,625 Americans recorded as Soren, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 girls and 665 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Soren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Soren, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,625 Americans ever recorded as Soren. The median Soren alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 8,135 people named Soren (495 women and girls, 7,640 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 52 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 248 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 476 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,010 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Soren born?
The states with the most babies named Soren are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 65 | #492 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 61 | #587 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 41 | #165 | 3.9× |
| Michigan | 30 | #319 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #369 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 27 | #280 | 2.7× |
| Colorado | 26 | #260 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #445 | 0.5× |
| Oregon | 20 | #216 | 2.9× |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #298 | 1.6× |
Where Soren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Soren is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1912 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Soren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,511 babies since 1880, Soren is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 703 of their 812 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Soren
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Soren and names like it
- Compare Soren and SorinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSoren peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Soren since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Soren: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Soren.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Soren alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.