Sootho

oth · Southern Sotho · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sootho is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 221M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2

across 1 country

Sources
6

221 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 221M

United States

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Soo-Tho in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Sootho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈245 rec.1 in 221MSoo-Tho6
LS Lesotho1

Roughly 2 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 221M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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Languages

  • Southern Sotho272100%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Southern Sotho272100%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Evidence

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Sootho
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists20221#13

Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sootho?
We estimate roughly 2 people bear Sootho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Sootho have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2 people bear Sootho in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled Soo-Tho.
Where is Sootho most common?
Sootho is densest in the United States, where we estimate about 1 in 221 million people carry it.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sootho”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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