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Sota

#6,091 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Sota has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,091 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Sota, 2025

1 in 221,000

Sota over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sota: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sota means

Sota is a alternate transcription of Kanji.

Origin, language, and formation

Sota is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanji.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 214 boys were recorded with the name Sota between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,528 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,435 in 2020 to #6,091 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,528 in 2015 to #6,091 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sota?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,091
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sota sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sotas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sota was born before 2015 — so the typical Sota is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
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Choose a decade

2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Sota rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,679
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,344
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,563
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.2%
Peak was 2015 (22)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,528
2015

Spellings of Sota

Sota is not the most common spelling — Scott is, with 74.7% against Sota's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sota is used

Across 1910–2025, Sota was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 792,396 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sota around the world

Where Sota ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000
  • France
    2014–2014
    #6,165
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sota by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,091
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,344
Best rank ever
#4,528
2015
Peak year
2015
22 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Sota

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sota

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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