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Sotirios

Boys' name

Form of Soterios

Sotirios has been given to 270 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1977, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Sotirios, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sotirios: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Soterios

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sotirios means

Sotirios is a form of Soterios.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sotirios is used in Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Soterios.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 270 boys were recorded with the name Sotirios between 1967 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,965 in 1972.

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.

How common is Sotirios?

Sotirios had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sotirios 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sotirios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sotirioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sotirios was born before 1981 — so the typical Sotirios is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
270
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Sotirios 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (14)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,965
1972

Where Sotirios is used

Across 1910–2025, Sotirios was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Sotirios has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sotirios around the world

Where Sotirios 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
    2009–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1951–2010
    #494
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sotirios 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
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Best rank ever
#2,965
1972
Peak year
1977
14 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
270
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sotirios

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

SoteriosMakariosAlexiosSteliosAntoniosGeorgiosJuandediosVasiliosSotaHeliosFotiosSoteroAnastasiosDemitriosDimitriosAthanasiosDemetriosDionisiosNektariosEliosDionysiosMariosArseniosEleftherios

Sibling names for Sotirios

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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