Explore the Family Name Soine

The meaning of Soine

1. French: perhaps a nickname for an unfortunate or unhappy person, from Old French soigne, soing ‘sorrow, care’. This surname is also found in Germany. 2. Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Søyne in Valdres, most likely a compound of sein ‘slow, late’ + -e from Old Norse vin ‘meadow’, denoting a field with a crop late in the season. This is a rare example of a surname in the US that is extinct in Norway. 3. American shortened and altered form of Finnish Soininen: cognate of Soini, formed with the surname suffix -nen. The surname Soine, an altered form of Soini, was occasionally also adopted during the name-changing campaigns of the early 20th century in Finland, but it has always been very rare there. Some characteristic forenames: German Gerhard, Wolfgang.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.