Soddu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Sardinian, equivalent to the Italian surname Soldo
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zoddu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soddu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 143K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
- ARArgentina1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
82 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname from Sardinian, equivalent to the Italian surname Soldo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Soddu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 82 | 1 in 143K | 82 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 32 | 1 in 1.4M | 32 | Soddu | 19 |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
82 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Soddu 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 Italian, sobrenome sardo ligado a apelativo para homem rico; também pode indicar habitante de Soddi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Ubaldo Soddub. 1883ITItalian general (1883-1949)
- Pietro Soddub. 1929ITItalian politician and mayor
- Celestino Soddub. 1945ITItalian architect
- Ubaldo Soddub. 1950ITItalian dramatist and theatre critic
- Francesco Antonio Soddub. 1959ITItalian Roman Catholic archbishop
- Andrea Soddub. 1974ITItalian politician
- Silvia SodduITresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 82 | #18,205 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 32 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,371 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,601 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #210,095 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #208,034 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Soddu mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Sardinian, equivalent to the Italian surname Soldo. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Soddu?
- In the etymology graph, Soldo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Soddu?
- A machine transcription gives /zoddu/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Soddu have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 82 people named Soddu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soddu most common?
- Soddu is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 143 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Soddu?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 82 people named Soddu in 2008, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Soddu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sodduThe 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, “Soddu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.