Sotelo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sot̪elo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sotelo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Sotelo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.5K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
40,373 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
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(measured from records)
From Spanish Sotelo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotelo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #178 | 40,373 | 1 in 1.1K | 40K | Sotelo | 94 |
| US United States | — | 21,455 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Sotelo | 333 |
| PE Peru | #292 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Sotelo | 80 |
| CO Colombia | #464 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 10 | Sotelo | 103 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sotelo | 56 |
| NI Nicaragua | #155 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Sotelo | 33 |
| PY Paraguay | #203 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sotelo | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,818 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | — | 41 |
40,373 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Luis Sotelob. 1574ESSpanish missionary
- José Calvo Sotelob. 1893ESSpanish author (1893-1936)
- Leopoldo Calvo Sotelob. 1894ESSpanish author
- Joaquín Calvo Sotelob. 1905ESSpanish journalist and playwright
- Enriqueta Basiliob. 1948MXnot in their usual nameMexican athlete (1948–2019)
- Amanda Portalesb. 1961PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer
- Julián Sotelob. 1965ESSpanish javelin thrower
- Gustavo Sotelob. 1968PYfootballer
- Ignacio Carrascob. 1982MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Juan Sánchez Sotelob. 1987ARArgentine footballer
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 40K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,177 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.8K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 10 | #106 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Sotelo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Sotelo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sotelo?
- A machine transcription gives /sot̪elo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sotelo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Sotelo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotelo.
- Where is Sotelo most common?
- Sotelo is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sotelo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 40,373 people named Sotelo, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Sotelo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Sotelo is the 178th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sotelo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soteloThe 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, “Sotelo” — the 178th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.