Sotaro
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sətɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sotaro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.7M
- CACanada≈1 in 9.7M
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotaro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sotaro | 65 |
| US United States | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 5 | Sotaro | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | — | Sotaro | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | — | Sotaro | 4 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Iba Sōtarōb. 1851JPJapanese politician
- Yasui Sōtarōb. 1888JPJapanese artist (1888-1955)
- Sōtarō Ishiwatab. 1891JPJapanese politician
- Sōtarō Takaseb. 1892JPJapanese businessman (1892-1966)
- Sotaro Tojimab. 1971JPJapanese composer
- Sotaro Yasunagab. 1976JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Sotaro Sadab. 1984JPJapanese association football player (1984-)
- Sotarob. 1986JPJapanese actor and model (1986-)
- Sōtarō Izumib. 1992JPJapanese association football player (1992-)
- Sotaro Fujiwarab. 1998JPJapanese judoka
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)
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #34,470 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #43,168 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sotaro?
- A machine transcription gives /sətɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Sotaro a male or female name?
- Sotaro 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 Sotaro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Sotaro in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotaro.
- How common is the name Sotaro?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Sotaro in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sotaro?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotaroThe 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, “Sotaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.