Sozinho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alone, lonely
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sɔziɲu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sozinho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- AOAngola≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 184K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)alone, lonely
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sozinho is found
(measured from records)Sozinho 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | #410 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Sozinho | 10 |
| AO Angola | #341 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Sozinho | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,152 | 1 in 184K | 1.2K | Sozinho | 43 |
| US United States | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Sozinho | 46 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Sozinho | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 4 |
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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sozinho 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 Portuguese, alone; by oneself; on one's own
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)- Sozinho Guerrab. 1958MZbadminton 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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sozinho mean, and where does it come from?
- alone, lonely Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Sozinho?
- In the etymology graph, Só is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sozinho?
- In Portuguese /sɔziɲu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sozinho?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Sozinho in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sozinho. After it come Angola, Brazil, United States and Portugal; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sozinho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,152 people named Sozinho, about 1 in 184 thousand residents.
- How common is Sozinho compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Sozinho is the 410th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sozinho?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sozinhoThe 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, “Sozinho” — the 410th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.