Given name & surname · also Turkish

Soyer

Soyer is a surname from Turkish, ultimately from French. It is used in English and Turkish.

Original TurkishErsoy

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Soyer comes from Turkish, and ultimately from French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Turkish Soyer, from French Soyer.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Soyer through the years

Babies since 1880
12
12 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2016
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20160.0
Soyer in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2007–2025, per million boys 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 boys is 7 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 229 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.

Soyer’s family of names

In Turkish usage, Soyer shares a linguistic root with ERSOY. In Turkish usage, Soyer shares a linguistic root with Soylu.

Walk Soyer’s family in the name graph

SoyerErsoy

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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