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How popular is the name Soul?
Births per year, rank history and how many Souls are alive today.
Soul (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1897th in 2025 and given to 13 babies. The name peaked in 2009, when 13 babies were given the name, the 1649th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2024, with 13 babies given the name that year.
The Soul you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Souls born in England and Wales are between 7 and 24, and there are at least 250 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Soul - on average, only one in every 1,212 such rooms contains a Soul.
How many babies are named Soul each year?
Where does Soul rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Soul most popular?
Soul peaked in 2009, when 13 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Soul?
At least 250 people named Soul born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Soul?
Most living Souls are between 7 and 24; the most common age is about 16. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Soul becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.