Sotgiu

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/sotd͡ʒu/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated

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Sotgiu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

  • ITItaly≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 400K
  • BEBelgium1 in 510K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,600 people, est.

Record sources
86 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, 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)

Sotgiu 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.

Where Sotgiu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈3,600 est.≈1 in 17KlistedSotgiu86
FR France≈180 est.≈1 in 383K17Sotgiu1
DE Germany≈60 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Sotgiu27
AR Argentina461 in 989K46——
BE Belgium231 in 510K23Sotgiu4
CH Switzerland211 in 400K21—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: the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
1900192019401960Giuseppe Sotgiu, b. 1902Dante Sotgiu, b. 1917Maria Carla Cavagnis Sotgiu, b. 1940Giovanna Sotgiu, b. 1944Angelo Sotgiu, b. 1946

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)
FormalGentile Sotgiu,Dear Sotgiu, (English)
InformalGentile Sotgiu,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • 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

How do you pronounce Sotgiu?
In Italian /sotd͡ʒu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Sotgiu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Sotgiu in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotgiu.
How common is the name Sotgiu?
In Argentina, the national register counted 46 people named Sotgiu, about 1 in 989 thousand residents.

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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, “Sotgiu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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