Soul: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

There is no single Soul family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Soul means

Before spelling settled in the modern era, so Soule could easily become Soul. The family name meaning is “A dweller at, ' or near, a muddy pond”, the same as for Soule.

Soul drops the “e” of Soule, a simplification that clerks often made. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. The 2010 census count for Soul in the United States was 249, good for rank 77,012. French birth records list 271 children named Soul between 1891 and 2000.

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