Soul — #2328 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Soul

The Social Security Administration has registered 402 babies named Soul between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Soul currently holds the #2328 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 62 babies received it in a single year. Soul is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 284 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Soul performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 247 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Soul shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Soul in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Soul in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 402 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.