Sotero
Sotero is a boy's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 1,850th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 490 Soteros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Sotero
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 786
- Estimated living today
- 490
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 1,850th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Soteros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 786 babies given the name since 1912, about 490 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Sotero is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sotero is most concentrated in Texas (12.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Sotero peaked:
Where Sotero lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 480 men called Sotero were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soria | Sotero | 7 | 0.153 | 471 |
| Cáceres | Sotero | 25 | 0.130 | 531 |
| Ávila | Sotero | 7 | 0.087 | 668 |
| Ciudad Real | Sotero | 21 | 0.086 | 677 |
| Toledo | Sotero | 31 | 0.082 | 725 |
| Palencia | Sotero | 6 | 0.076 | 760 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.