Sotirov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sotirov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 34K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
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 Sotirov 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Сотиров in RU Russia.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotirov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #255 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Sotirov | 70 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Sotirov | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Сотиров | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Sotirov | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | Sotirov | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Sotirov | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Ivan Sotirovb. 1970BGbadminton 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #60,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #27,547 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Sotirov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Sotirov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotirov.
- How common is the name Sotirov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 32 people named Sotirov, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Sotirov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Sotirov is the 255th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sotirov?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotirovThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sotirov” — the 255th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.