Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Sobota

    A surname, carried by 1,083 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S130

    Sobota: #23,472 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sobota #23,472, 1,083 people Sobota: #23,472 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sobota #23,472, 1,083 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sobota is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,083 people named Sobota in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,084 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,012.

    #23,472
    rank among US surnames
    1,083
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #23,428)

    Who is named Sobota

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Sobota identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sobota

    Sobota has the Soundex code S130, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S130.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sobota?
    1,083 people in the United States had the surname Sobota in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,084 Americans. It ranked 23,472nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sobota?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Sobota identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Sobota getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,012 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,083 in 2010, up 7.0%.