Sotomayor

Sotomayor is the 7,534th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,256 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,256
Rank: 7,534th
How common: 1 in 70,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, Galician

From a Spanish habitational surname Sotomayor, from a locality in Galicia called Galician Soutomaior, from souto (“grove”) + maior (“larger”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.4%
White, not Hispanic 8.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954)US Supreme Court justice since 2009
Javier Sotomayor (born 1967)Cuban high jumper
Margot Duhalde Sotomayor (1920–2018)Chilean aviator

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

Surnames like Sotomayor

Soto
Sotelo

Try it on yourself

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.