Sotirios
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023
/sotiɾis/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from σωτήρης
Sotirios is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 255K
- NONorway≈1 in 300K
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 Sotirios itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 named Sotiris, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sotiris in GR Greece, CY Cyprus.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sotirios 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #194 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 24 | Sotiris | 123 |
| CY Cyprus | #121 | 3,575as Σωτηρης | 1 in 354 | 3.6K | Sotiris | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 1 | Sotirios | 80 |
| US United States | — | 602 | 1 in 553K | 602 | Sotirios | 146 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 334K | 61 | Sotirios | 64 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 3 | Sotirios | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 121 | 1 in 84K | 121 | Sotirios | 17 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Sotirios Versisb. 1876GRAthlete and weightlifter (1876–1919)
- Sotero Arangurenb. 1894ARnot in their usual nameformer Spanish footballer (1894-1922)
- Sam Panopoulosb. 1934CAnot in their usual nameCanadian cook (1934-2017)
- Sotiris Moustakasb. 1940GRGreek Cypriot actor (1940–2007)
- Sotiris Kaiafasb. 1949CYCypriot footballer
- Sotiris Kakisisb. 1954GRcontemporary Greek poet
- Sotiris Dimitrioub. 1955GRGreek writer
- Sotiris Kyrgiakosb. 1979GRGreek association football player
- Sotiris Ninisb. 1990GRGreek footballer
- Sotiris Papagiannopoulosb. 1990SESwedish association football player
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 602 | #18,034 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 121 | #7,506 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 102 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 100 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 99 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 93 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 76 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 76 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 73 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 69 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Sotirios?
- In the etymology graph, Sotiris is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sotirios?
- In Greek /sotiɾis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sotirios a male or female name?
- Sotirios is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sotirios have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Sotiris in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sotirios most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sotirios is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 84 thousand people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sotirios?
- In the United States, the national register counted 602 people named Sotirios in 2020, about 1 in 553 thousand residents.
- How common is Sotirios compared with other names?
- In Greece, Sotirios is the 194th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sotirios?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotiriosThe 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, “Sotirios” — the 194th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.