Meaning and background
The story behind Souffle
Souffle preserves this catalogue’s unaccented spelling of the French culinary term soufflé. A soufflé is a light baked dish, usually lifted by beaten egg whites and made in sweet or savoury versions. The French word is related to blowing or puffing up, which describes the dish rather than any imagined animal character. As a dog name it is distinctive but should not be assigned a traditional human-name etymology.
- Meaning
- Unaccented spelling of soufflé: a light baked sweet or savoury dish, typically raised with beaten egg whites. Source
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About Souffle
Recorded as a dog’s name
Souffle appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/sufleɪ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/sufleɪ/ · primary stress on syllable 2S UW0 F L EY1
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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