Soto

At the 2020 census, 145,165 Americans bore the surname Soto — 188th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,059.

By the numbers

People: 145,165
Rank: 188th
How common: 1 in 2,059
Per 100,000: 48.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Soto described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.8%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Soto

Hernando de Soto (1500–1542)Spanish explorer and conquistador
Talisa Soto (born 1967)American actress and model
Jesús Huerta de Soto (born 1956)Spanish economist, professor, and author
Hernando de Soto (born 1941)Peruvian economist
Marco Aurelio Soto (1846–1908)President of Honduras
Gabriel Soto (born 1975)Mexican actor
Juan Soto (born 1998)Dominican baseball player
Elkin Soto (born 1980)Colombian footballer

People named Soto with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Soto

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.