Sorgo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/s̪orɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sorgo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 40K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 96K
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.1M
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
106 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Šorgo in HR Croatia.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sorgo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 106 | 1 in 40K | 106 | Šorgo | 16 |
| IT Italy | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 1 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 22 | 1 in 96K | 22 | Sorgo | 3 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 31M | listed | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
106 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Sorgo 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.
In French, post-1990 spelling of sorgho
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, sorghum (a cereal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, sorghum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Graudzāļu dzimtas ģints ("Sorghum"), viengadīgi vai daudzgadīgi lakstaugi, ~50 sugu, gk. tropos un subtropos, Latvijā konstatētas 2 adventīvas sugas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Basque, Sorgo. Ereman ninduten etxola batetarat eta sorgo erre eta burra asukrestatua eskaini zauzkidaten . Prop 1898, 277.
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)
- Luka Sorkočevićb. 1734HRnot in their usual nameCroatian composer
- Antun Sorkočevićb. 1775HRnot in their usual nameCroatian composer, writer and diplomat (1775-1841)
- Niko Mirošević-Sorgob. 1884VAVatican writer (1884-1966)
- Lara SorgoSIresearcher
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 42 | #14,819 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 31 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 22 | #12,843 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,484 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Sorgo?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪orɡo/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Sorgo have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 106 people named Sorgo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šorgo.
- Where is Sorgo most common?
- Sorgo is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sorgo?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 106 people named Sorgo in 2021, about 1 in 40 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/sorgoThe 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, “Sorgo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.