as a Last Name
- 105,183
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Soto
Meaning & Origins
Spanish: 1. habitational name from any of numerous places named Soto or El Soto, from soto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ (Latin saltus). 2. Castilianized spelling of Asturian-Leonese Sotu, a habitational name from a town so named in Asturies. 3. Castilianized spelling of the Galician equivalent, Souto.
| 287th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 105,183
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Soto per capita
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