Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sotiris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 5 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 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 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.
Sotiris’s family of names
In English usage, Sotiris has a related form in SOTIRIOS. In English usage, Sotiris was borrowed from the Greek form Σωτήρης.
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 Sotiris
- Sotirios KyrgiakosGreek association football playerborn 1979
- Sotiris NinisGreek footballerborn 1990
- Sotiris KaiafasCypriot footballerborn 1949
- Sotirios VersisAthlete and weightlifter (1876–1919)
- Sotirios PapagiannopoulosSwedish association football playerborn 1990
- Sotiris BalafasGreek footballerborn 1986
- Sotiris BletsasGreek Aromanian minority rights activistborn 1956
- Sotiris LeontiouGreek footballerborn 1984
- Sotiris ManolopoulosGreek basketball player, born 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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