Sotto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the woods; from Sotto del Barco, Spain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɒtəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sotto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.4K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.5K
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 Sotto 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled สุดโต 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)
from the woods; from Sotto del Barco, Spain
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sotto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #266 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Sotto | 101 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Sotto | 6 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Sotto | 42 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | #689,661 | สุดโต | 55 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,488 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Sotto | 41 |
| PY Paraguay | #356 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Sotto | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | #632 | 951 | 1 in 3.6K | 951 | Sotto | 22 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Sotto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Ellipsis of sotto voce.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, originally spelled Soto until around American colonial era.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, a surname from Spanish, originally spelled Soto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, under, beneath, underneath
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mch, person, human
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonardb. 1793ESSpanish military historian and politician
- Val Sottob. 1945PHFilipino actor
- Tito Sottob. 1948PHFilipino comedian-actor, singer and politician; President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2018 to 2022 and 2025 to present
- Vic Sottob. 1954PHFilipino actor, singer and television presenter
- Thomas Sottob. 1973FRFrench journalist
- Miko Sottob. 1982PHFilipino actor (1982-2003)
- Oyo Boy Sottob. 1984PHFilipino actor
- Pauleen Lunab. 1988PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress
- Vico Sottob. 1989PHFilipino politician; mayor of Pasig City since 2019
- Kai Sottob. 2002PHFilipino basketball player (born 2002)
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 951 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 does the name Sotto mean, and where does it come from?
- from the woods; from Sotto del Barco, Spain Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Sotto?
- A machine transcription gives /sɒtəʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sotto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Sotto in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotto.
- Where is Sotto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sotto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sotto?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,488 people named Sotto, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Sotto compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Sotto is the 266th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sottoThe 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, “Sotto” — the 266th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.