Šosa
surname · Latin script
Šosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa.
- UYUruguay1 in 45(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.5K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45 (inferred from the name graph)
256,043 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sosa in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SpanishSosa(measured from records)
- PortugueseSousa(measured from records)
From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šosa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 256,043 | 1 in 178 | 256K | Sosa | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 75,135 | 1 in 45 | 75K | — | — |
| US United States | 52,457 | 1 in 6.3K | 53K | Sosa | 37 |
| ES Spain | 22,032 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Sosa | 9 |
| EC Ecuador | 11,351 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3,486 | 1 in 1.5K | 3.5K | — | — |
256,043 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šosa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Šosa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Šosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosa.
- Where is Šosa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šosa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šosa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256,043 people named Šosa, about 1 in 178 residents.
What do you want to know about Šosa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1osaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.