Sotos

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sotos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sotos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 397K
  • CLChile≈1 in 439K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,470 people

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sotos 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.

Where Sotos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,4701 in 34K1.5KSotos86
US United States3431 in 970K343Sotos52
AR Argentina731 in 623K73Sotos22
GB United Kingdom≈66 est.≈1 in 997K8Sotos6
CO Colombia≈63 est.≈1 in 785K—Sotos10
CL Chile≈41 est.≈1 in 439K—Sotos10
HN Honduras≈23 est.≈1 in 397K—Sotos2
DO Dominican Republic≈18 est.≈1 in 599K—Sotos6

1,470 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sotos is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Cyprus

    Also written Σωτος, Σώτος, Sōtos, Σοτος

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sōtos, Sótos

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Bonifacio Sotos Ochando, b. 1785Carmen Andújar Sotos, b. 1891Julián Martínez Soto, b. 1921Mara Dierssen Sotos, b. 1961

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Sotos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#3,147
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#3,147
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010343#59,017
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020326#65,688
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000301#62,236
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—73—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20028#167,220
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Sotos?
A machine transcription gives /sotos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Sotos have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Sotos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotos.
Where is Sotos most common?
Sotos is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sotos?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,470 people named Sotos, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotos

The 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, “Sotos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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