Sotomayor

English

Etymology

From a habitational surname Spanish Sotomayor, from a locality in Galicia called Galician Soutomaior, from souto (“grove”) + maior (“larger”).

Proper noun

Sotomayor

1. A surname from Spanish or Galacian.
   • 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sotomayor is the 7859^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4210 individuals. Sotomayor is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.71%) individuals.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sotomaˈʝoɾ/ [so.t̪o.maˈʝoɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /sotomaˈʝoɾ/ [so.t̪o.maˈʝoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sotomaˈʃoɾ/ [so.t̪o.maˈʃoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sotomaˈʒoɾ/ [so.t̪o.maˈʒoɾ]

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: So‧to‧ma‧yor

Proper noun

Sotomayor m or f by sense

1. a surname from Galician