Sotong
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Squid
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sotong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 351Kas โสทอง(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sotong 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 named โสทอง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as โสทอง
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled โสทอง in TH Thailand.
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)
squid (sea animal), esp. of the family Loliginidae
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Sotong is read(measured from records)
Sotong is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English28%
Squid.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian26%
squid (sea animal), esp. of the family Loliginidae
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
cuttlefish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Thai21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sotong in Thai.
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sotong in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotong 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.
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sotong come from?
- squid (sea animal), esp. of the family Loliginidae Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Sotong mean?
- In English, Squid.
- In which country does Sotong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 197 people named โสทอง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sotong?
- Mondonomo estimates about 200 people in Thailand have โสทอง as their first surname, about 1 in 351 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotongThe 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, “Sotong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.