Sotero

Boys' name

Rescuer, saviour/savior

Sotero has been given to 786 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1947, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Sotero, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sotero: meaning, origin, and history

Rescuer, saviour/savior

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sotero means

Sotero means “rescuer, saviour/savior”, associated with sōtḗr.

Origin, language, and formation

Sotero is used in Italian and Spanish.

Sotero comes through Ancient Greek σωτήρ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Sotero is pronounced /soˈtɛ.ro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 786 boys were recorded with the name Sotero between 1912 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,908 in 1947.

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.

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How common is Sotero?

Sotero had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sotero 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sotero. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soteros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sotero was born before 1963 — so the typical Sotero is around 62 today.

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 13.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 16.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 492; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 13.1% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Sotero 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 1947 (17)
Years since peak: 78; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,908; 1947

Spellings of Sotero

Sotero is not the most common spelling — Homero is, with 48.3% against Sotero's 10.1%.

Homero48.3%3,763
Romero23.7%1,844
Severo18.0%1,400
Sotero10.1%786

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 Sotero is used

Across 1910–2025, Sotero was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 116,715 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 50,000
2California1 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. Sotero has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sotero 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: #1,908; 1947
Peak year: 1947; 17 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 786
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sotero

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

Dinero Severo Cicero Piero Romero Lucero Hero Sota Homero Cordero Calogero Aero Nero Eero Antero Omero Baldomero Sotirios Spero Libero Sothea Zero Denero Ero

Sibling names for Sotero

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

Janey Ernestina Cheryle Jonnie Caryl Aleta Lonnie Charleen

For a brother

Fredric Lupe Felton Connie Gale Frederic Ronny Denny

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