Sotmayor Surname

7,117,718th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Ecuador

Sotmayor Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sotmayor Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Peru11:31,784,12364,452

Sotmayor Last Name Facts

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

The surname Sotmayor is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sotmayor? popularity and diffusion

Sotmayor is the 7,117,718th most frequently occurring surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Sotmayor live; 57 percent live in South America and 43 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The last name Sotmayor is most numerous in The United States, where it is carried by 3 people, or 1 in 120,819,644. In The United States it is most frequent in: California, where 100 percent are found. Other than The United States this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Chile, where 14 percent are found and Colombia, where 14 percent are found.

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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 Sotmayor
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