Soine Family History

French: perhaps a nickname for an unfortunate or unhappy person from Old French soigne soing ‘sorrow care’. This surname is also found in Germany.

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.

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.