Sosa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Recorded meaning: feminine singular of soso.
- UYUruguay1 in 45(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 163
- ARArgentina1 in 178
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #375 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45 (inferred from the name graph)
256,043 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
feminine singular of soso
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sosa 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 | #13 | 256,043 | 1 in 178 | 256K | Sosa | 158 |
| UY Uruguay | #6 | 75,135 | 1 in 45 | 75K | Sosa | 120 |
| US United States | — | 52,457 | 1 in 6.3K | 53K | Sosa | 426 |
| PY Paraguay | #22 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | — | Sosa | 80 |
| VE Venezuela | #140 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 770 | — | Sosa | 102 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #41 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 335 | — | Sosa | 88 |
| SV El Salvador | #121 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Sosa | 61 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sosa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
rocks; origin from rocks
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In fj, impatient
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, saltwort
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, to buy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, sweet. Sosahanya> v. a., investigate
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mercedes Sosab. 1935ARArgentine singer (1935-2009)
- Porfirio Lobo Sosab. 1947HN37th President of Honduras (2010–2014)
- Jose Joseb. 1948MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer (1948–2019)
- Víctor Púab. 1956UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Rubén Sosab. 1966UYUruguayan footballer
- El bambino del caribeb. 1968DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (born 1968)
- José Ernesto Sosab. 1985ARArgentine association football player
- Sebastián Sosab. 1986UYUruguayan footballer violín
- Arnold Peraltab. 1989HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer (1989-2015)
- Borna Sosab. 1998HRCroatian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 256K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 75K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 53K | #621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 52K | #650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 37K | #859 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Sosa mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of soso Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sosa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Sosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosa.
- Where is Sosa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sosa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sosa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256,043 people named Sosa, about 1 in 178 residents.
- How common is Sosa compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Sosa is the 13th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sosaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sosa” — the 13th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.