Sorbo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: service tree (Sorbus domestica)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈsɔr.bo/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Sorbo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 11Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 390Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 535K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)service tree (Sorbus domestica)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sorbo is found
(measured from records)Sorbo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Sorbo | 29 |
| US United States | 422 | 1 in 788K | 431 | Sorbo | 164 |
| BR Brazil | 179 | 1 in 1.2M | 179 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 649K | 7 | Sorbo | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 392K | — | Sorbo | 31 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Sorbo | 5 |
| NO Norway | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Sorbo | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Sorbo | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sorbo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de uma das cidades chamadas Sorbo; do lat. sorbus, sorveira.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Esperanto, absorption
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, courtship
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( SP , H ). " Sorboak, cormes" SP (Azkue lee corne 'cuerno' que después pasa a Lhande) . "Sorbe ou corme, fruit au sorbier" H .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Kevin Sorbob. 1958USAmerican actor
- Braeden Sorbob. 2001USAmerican actor
- Shane Sorbob. 2004USAmerican actor
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sorbo mean, and where does it come from?
- service tree (Sorbus domestica) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sorbo?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /ˈsɔr.bo/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈsoɾ.β̞o/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /soɾbu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sorbo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Sorbo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sorbo. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sorbo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422 people named Sorbo in 2010, about 1 in 788 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sorboThe 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, “Sorbo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.