Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sotirios isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sotirios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 270
- 270 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 602 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sotirios’s family of names
In English usage, Sotirios has a related form in SOTIRIS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sotirios
- Sotirios KyrgiakosGreek association football playerborn 1979
- Sotirios VersisAthlete and weightlifter (1876–1919)
- Sam PanopoulosCanadian cook (1934-2017)
- Sotirios SotiropoulosPrime Minister of Greece (1820-1898)
- Sotirios KrokidasGreek politician, lawyer and university professor (1852-1924)
- Sotirios PapagiannopoulosSwedish association football playerborn 1990
- Sotirios ZarianopoulosGreek politicianborn 1961
- Sotirios BretasGreek cyclistborn 1990
- Sotirios GotzamanisGreek politician and Axis collaborator1884–1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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