Sorbo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: service tree (Sorbus domestica)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɔɹboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sorbo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 788K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 17K
- NONorway≈1 in 113K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
service tree (Sorbus domestica)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Sorbo | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 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 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 654K | 7 | Sorbo | 24 |
| NO Norway | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Sorbo | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Sorbo | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | 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
- Lorenzo Sorbob. 1973ITresearcher
- 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)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 431 | #46,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 422 | #49,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 398 | #55,632 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 179 | #40,245 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɔɹboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sorbo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Sorbo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sorbo.
- 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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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 2026-10-10.