Só
surname · Latin script
Meaning: only, just
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Só is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 92K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 99K
- USUnited States1 in 142K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
2,343 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled So in US United States, DZ Algeria and Số in VN Vietnam.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)only, just
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Só counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
2,343 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Só is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, only; just (alone in a category)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, salt
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Catalan, superseded spelling of so (archaic or dialectal first singular present indicative of ser and ésser), deprecated in the 2016 orthographic reform by the Institute of Catalan Studies
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, salt (a common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sdc, alternative spelling of so': his/her; of his/of hers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aitor Loráb. 1996ESnot in their usual nameEquatoguinean association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Só mean, and where does it come from?
- only, just Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Só?
- In the etymology graph, Sozinho and Somente are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Só have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Só, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled so.
- How common is the name Só?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,343 people named Só in 2020, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is Só compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Só is the 386th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Só” — the 386th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.