Sósa
surname · Latin script
Sósa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa.
- UYUruguay1 in 45(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 150
- ARArgentina1 in 178
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sósa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #375 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45 (inferred from the name graph)
256,043 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sosa in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, US United States and 4 more.
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)- SpanishSosa(measured from records)
- PortugueseSousa(measured from records)
From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sósa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #13 | 256,043 | 1 in 178 | 256K | Sosa | 158 |
| MX Mexico | #115 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 766 | 3.9K | Sosa | 235 |
| UY Uruguay | #6 | 75,135 | 1 in 45 | 75K | Sosa | 120 |
| US United States | — | 52,457 | 1 in 6.3K | 53K | Sosa | 426 |
| PY Paraguay | #22 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 149 | — | Sosa | 80 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #41 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | — | Sosa | 88 |
| SV El Salvador | #121 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 662 | — | Sosa | 61 |
256,043 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Sósa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, sauce
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sósa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Sósa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Sósa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosa.
- Where is Sósa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sósa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sósa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256,043 people named Sósa, about 1 in 178 residents.
- How common is Sósa compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Sósa is the 13th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B3saThe 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, “Sósa” — the 13th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.