Sotiropoulos Surname

73,131st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,736 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Greece
Highest density in:
Greece

Sotiropoulos Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sotiropoulos Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Greece5,6431:1,963122
United States4911:738,20657,824
Australia2871:94,06210,731
Canada1381:266,99725,150
England351:1,591,94567,242
Germany271:2,981,684140,707
France251:2,656,909193,074
South Africa181:3,009,872112,058
Belgium131:884,35769,774
Brazil111:19,461,303329,560
Netherlands101:1,688,71881,846
Switzerland81:1,026,61463,315
United Arab Emirates61:1,527,04651,993
Sweden61:1,641,126116,183
Czechia31:3,544,490144,714
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Cyprus21:442,4389,493
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Albania11:2,914,05529,474

Sotiropoulos (13) may also be a first name.

Sotiropoulos Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sotiropoulos Come From? nationality or country of origin

Sotiropoulos occurs in Greece more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sotiropoulos? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 73,131st most widely held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 1,081,880 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 86 percent of Sotiropoulos are found; 84 percent are found in Southeastern Europe and 84 percent are found in Helleno-Europe. Sotiropoulos is also the 3,159,357th most prevalent first name globally. It is borne by 13 people.

It is most frequently occurring in Greece, where it is held by 5,643 people, or 1 in 1,963. In Greece Sotiropoulos is most frequent in: Attica, where 42 percent reside, Western Greece, where 24 percent reside and Peloponnese, where 18 percent reside. Outside of Greece Sotiropoulos occurs in 26 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 7 percent reside and Australia, where 4 percent reside.

Sotiropoulos Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Sotiropoulos surname are 1.97% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 55.2% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Sotiropoulos earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 140.61% more than the national average, earning R 571,776 per year; in United States they earn 10.13% more than the national average, earning $47,518 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.97% more than the national average, earning $53,645 CAD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sotiropoulos
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