as a Last Name
- 3,042
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sotomayor
Meaning & Origins
Spanish: Castilianized form of Soutomaior, a habitational name from the name of two places in Pontevedra and Ourense provinces, Galicia, so named from souto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ + maior ‘larger’, ‘main’.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,042
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Sotomayor per capita
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