The surname Soriano
A Spanish place surname, carried by 25,916 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex S650
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Soriano, from soriano (“inhabitant in Soria”).
Soriano is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 25,916 people named Soriano in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,913 Americans. That is up 49% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,418.
Who is named Soriano
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
70% of people named Soriano identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 19% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 8.4% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 70%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 19%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.4%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Famous Sorianos
5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Osvaldo SorianoArgentine writer and journalist (1943–1997)
- Rafael SorianoBaseball player, born 1979
- Raphael SorianoAmerican architect (1904–1988)
- Alberto SorianoArgentinian botanist (1920-1998)
- Waldick SorianoBrazilian singer (1933-2008)
Notable Sorianos come mostly from Argentina (2), the Dominican Republic (1) and the United States (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Soriano has the Soundex code S650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S650.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Soriano come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Soriano, from soriano (“inhabitant in Soria”).
- How common is the surname Soriano?
- 25,916 people in the United States had the surname Soriano in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,913 Americans. It ranked 1,361st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Soriano?
- In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Soriano identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 19% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Who is the most famous person named Soriano?
- Osvaldo Soriano, Argentine writer and journalist (1943–1997), followed by Rafael Soriano.
- Where is the surname Soriano most common?
- Wikidata records people named Soriano in Argentina, the Dominican Republic and the United States and 1 other country.
- What type of surname is Soriano?
- Soriano is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Soriano getting more or less common?
- More common. 17,418 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,916 in 2010, up 49%.