Sotéro
surname · Latin script
Sotéro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “savior”).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 21K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 97K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sotero in MX Mexico, US United States, PH Philippines and 5 more.
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)
From Ancient Greek σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “savior”).
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotéro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Sotero | 36 |
| US United States | — | 1,445 | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Sotero | 150 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,396 | 1 in 21K | 1.4K | Sotero | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 480 | 1 in 104K | 528 | Sotero | 51 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 172 | Sotero | 36 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sotero | 5 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sotero | 6 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3 | — | 6 |
| MX Mexico | #906 | — | — | 90 | Sotero | 82 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 Sotéro mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “savior”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sotéro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Sotéro in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotero.
- How common is the name Sotéro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,445 people named Sotéro in 2020, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
- How common is Sotéro compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Sotéro is the 906th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sot%C3%A9roThe 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, “Sotéro” — the 906th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.