Meaning and background
The story behind Soybean
Soybean names the leguminous plant and its edible seed, known in Britain also as the soya bean. These beans are used in foods including tofu, soya milk and soy sauce, though the seed itself is the core dictionary meaning. As a dog name it is more specific than Soy and has a gently comic two-part structure. No claim about a pet’s diet or origins follows from the word alone.
- Meaning
- The edible seed of the soya plant, a cultivated legume; also the plant itself. Source
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About Soybean
Recorded as a dog’s name
Soybean appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/sɔɪbin/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/sɔɪbin/ · primary stress on syllable 1S OY1 B IY2 N
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- 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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