How common is the surname Sotelo?

21,455 people in the United States had the surname Sotelo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,390 Americans. It ranked 1,679th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sotelo getting more or less common?

More common. 15,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,455 in 2010, up 40%.

The surname Sotelo

A Spanish surname, carried by 21,455 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S340

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sotelo is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Sotelo.

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 21,455 people named Sotelo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,390 Americans. That is up 40% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,308.

#1,679

rank among US surnames

21,455

people in 2010

7.3

per 100,000 Americans

+40.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,177)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,670	Diamond	21,586	14,303
#1,671	Pimentel	21,579	14,308
#1,672	Cornell	21,558	14,322
#1,673	Arreola	21,540	14,334
#1,674	Siegel	21,536	14,336
#1,675	Hankins	21,532	14,339
#1,676	Raines	21,518	14,348

Who is named Sotelo

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

92% of people named Sotelo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 92%
White (not Hispanic) 4.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0%
Two or more races 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sotelo

Sotelo has the Soundex code S340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S340.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sotelo come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Sotelo.
How common is the surname Sotelo?: 21,455 people in the United States had the surname Sotelo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,390 Americans. It ranked 1,679th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sotelo?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sotelo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.7% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Sotelo getting more or less common?: More common. 15,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,455 in 2010, up 40%.