Given name

Sotiris

Sotiris is a masculine given name from Greek.

Original GreekΣωτήρης

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sotiris comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Greek Σωτήρης.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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
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Too few births to compare
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Sotiris in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2003–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

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.

Walk Sotiris’s family in the name graph

SotirisSotiriosSotosΣωτήρηςΣώτοςΣωτήριος

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

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.

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Sibling ideas

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