Sosthenes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/zuʃtɛnɛʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sosthenes is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.2M
- TZTanzania≈1 in 13Kfew recordsas Sostenes
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sosthenes itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 649K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 named Sostenes, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sostenes in MX Mexico, BR Brazil, US United States and 3 more.
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
(measured from records)Biblical name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sosthenes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sostenes | 14 |
| MX Mexico | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 26 | Sostenes | 59 |
| BR Brazil | 1,433as Sostenes | 1 in 148K | 1.6K | Sostenes | 76 |
| US United States | 419as Sostenes | 1 in 794K | 400 | Sostenes | 78 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Sostenes | 5 |
| GH Ghana | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Sosthenes | 6 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Sostenes | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 97 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 95 | #42,213 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 89 | #20,182 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 23 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sosthenes mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Sosthenes?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zuʃtɛnɛʃ/; in Swahili /sosθenes/; in Indonesian /sosthənəs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sosthenes a male or female name?
- Sosthenes is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sosthenes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Sostenes in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sosthenes?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Sosthenes in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sosthenes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sosthenesThe 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, “Sosthenes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.