Sorto
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sorto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 467(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 878
- USUnited States1 in 51K
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.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Sorto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #78 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | 15K | Sorto | 54 |
| HN Honduras | #111 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 878 | — | Sorto | 40 |
| US United States | — | 6,523 | 1 in 51K | 7.4K | Sorto | 231 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sorto | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Sorto | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | #749 | 133 | 1 in 38K | 133 | Sorto | 14 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Sorto | 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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Sorto 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 Finnish, oppression, persecution, repression
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, sort, kind: brand (of goods)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, fate, destiny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, risen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Said Martínezb. 1991HNnot in their usual nameHonduran football referee
- Oscar Sortob. 1994USAmerican soccer player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 15K | #90 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.4K | #4,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.5K | #5,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,123 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 133 | #1,235 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Sorto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Sorto in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sorto.
- How common is the name Sorto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,523 people named Sorto in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Sorto compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Sorto is the 78th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sorto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sortoThe 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, “Sorto” — the 78th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.