Soteris
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Soteris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CYCyprus1 in 354as Σωτηρης(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 2.7Kas Sotiris
- DEGermany≈1 in 90Kas Sotirios
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Soteris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 354 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 named Sotirios, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Σωτηρης
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sotirios in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 1 more and Sotiris in GR Greece, CY Cyprus, CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soteris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Sotiris | 3 |
| GR Greece | #194 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 24 | Sotiris | 123 |
| CY Cyprus | #121 | 3,575as Σωτηρης | 1 in 354 | 3.6K | Sotiris | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Sotirios | 80 |
| US United States | — | 602as Sotirios | 1 in 553K | 602 | Sotirios | 146 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 3 | Sotirios | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 121as Sotirios | 1 in 84K | 121 | Sotirios | 17 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Soteris is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a male given name, character in the play Vidularia of Plautus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Soteris a male or female name?
- Soteris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Soteris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Sotirios in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soteris most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Soteris itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 354 people named Σωτηρης.
- How common is the name Soteris?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 3,575 people named Σωτηρης in 2011, about 1 in 354 residents.
- How common is Soteris compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Soteris is the 121st most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Soteris?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soterisThe 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, “Soteris” — the 121st most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.