The Sorto surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,523 people carried this name — #5,337 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 45,200 people counted. That is up 73% from 3,760 in 2000.

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In the Nordic population registers

24 people named Sorto is counted in Finland.

Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.

Counted, by country

Finland (2026) 24

Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Sorto in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1920s.

21 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sorto. The most, 9, date from the 1920s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 10
Victoria 4
New South Wales 3
South Australia 2
Tasmania 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sorto.

In the public record

People named Sorto,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States7 records

7 records of the Sorto name in the United States
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Polizi Sorto

    Arrived at New York in 1907 aboard the Kaiser W. der Grosse from Genoa and Naples, aged 36; farm laborer. From Monteroduni, Isernia, Italy; bound for Philadelphia.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Anna Sorto

    Born 1909 in Italy. Registered as a foreign national in Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. An Oregon State Board of Health certificate of death, 1910
    Example: U.S. death certificate, 1910
    Death record Grace Sorto

    Died 1961 in New York State, aged 66.

    New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index

Showing 3 of 7 records for Sorto in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0); Certificate of death, Oregon State Board of Health, 1910, Oregon State Archives (public domain).

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