Soterios

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Soterios has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Soterios, 1965

1 in 725,000

Soterios over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soterios: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Greek

What Soterios means

Soterios is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Soterios is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Soterios between 1965 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1965; its best national rank was #4,359 in 1965.

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 Soterios?

Soterios had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965: 1 in 725,000; 5 of 3,625,243 births
Among boys only: 1 in 372,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1965: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 502,567 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Soterios 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 1965 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 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soterios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soterioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soterios was born before 1965 — so the typical Soterios is around 60 today.

Median birth year: 1965; About 60 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Soterios 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1965 (5)
Years since peak: 60; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,359; 1965

Spellings of Soterios

Soterios is not the most common spelling — Sotero is, with 99.4% against Soterios's 0.63%.

Sotero99.4%786
Soterios0.63%5

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.

Soterios around the world

Where Soterios 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.

South Australia
1962–1969
#510
in 1969

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Soterios by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,359; 1965
Peak year: 1965; 5 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 1965
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Soterios

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

Arsenios Sotirios Basilios Sotiris Sotaro Giorgios Gregorios Aimilios Laios Vasileios Sothea Nectarios Matthaios Elefterios Makarios Stamatios Vassilios Efstratios Efthimios Axios Fotios Stelios Dionysios Nektarios

Sibling names for Soterios

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

For a sister

Kandy Bettina Lanette Zina Kenneth Rona Vonda Zena

For a brother

Darron Daron Kip Deron Daren Tad Richie Kennedy

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