Sother
surname · Latin script
Meaning: significant other
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sother is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
90 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
significant other
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sother 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 90 | 1 in 2.4M | 90 | Sother | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Sother | 3 |
| FR France | — | — | 15 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
90 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Sother is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Glābējs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallabyb. 1899GBnot in their usual nameGeneral in the British Indian Army
- Ted Haworthb. 1917USnot in their usual nameproduction designer, art director (1917-1993)
- Michael Sothern Hollandb. 1963GBnot in their usual name(born 1963)
- Guy George Sothern Antony Robertsonb. 1985GBnot in their usual name(born 1985)
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 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 90 | #68,483 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sother mean, and where does it come from?
- significant other Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sother have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 90 people named Sother, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sother.
- Where is Sother most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sother is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.1 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sother?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 90 people named Sother, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sother?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotherThe 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, “Sother”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.