Given name & surname

Soda

Soda is a surname from Japanese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Soda comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 宗田 (sōda).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Soda through the years

Babies since 1880
5
0 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year
2000
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012320002025Highest share 20000.0
Soda in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2000–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 134 as a first name in 2020; 722 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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