Soy

See also: soy, soy-, söy, and sơ ý

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Khmer សយ (sɑɑy, “mane”), probably a nickname.
• Probably a clipping of Soya, a surname of Kashmiri origin.
• Borrowed from Turkish Soy, a nickname from soy (“ancestry, lineage, descent”).

Proper noun

Soy (plural Soys)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Soy is the 40610^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 538 individuals. Soy is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (58.36%) and White (29.0%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Soy”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.