The Sotelo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 21,455 people carried this name — #1,679 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 13,800 people counted. That is up 40% from 15,308 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 40,373 people named Sotelo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
73 people named Sotelo live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Sotelo in American newspapers,
1847–1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,379 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Sotelo in Australian newspapers,
1930s–1980s.
171 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sotelo. The most, 115, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 1.6 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sotelo.
Who carried it
People named Sotelo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Luis Sotelo 1574–1624 · missionary -
Diego Arias de Sotelo 1518–1566 · conquistador
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Joaquín María Sotelo y Segura 1766–1831 · jurist
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Juan de Dios Sotelo Machín 1793–1860 · military personnel
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Pantaleón Sotelo 1800–1820 · military personnel
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Vicenta Sotelo Puga 1816–1906
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Sotelo,
in the records of 2 countries.
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 States343 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 200
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 90
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 49
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Domingo SoteloBorn 1909 in Texas. Enlisted 1945 at Fort Sam Houston; driver from Hidalgo County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Valley Memorial Gardens, McAllen, Texas.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Luis Alonzo SoteloBorn 1936; from Tulare, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Hua Nghia, South Vietnam.
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Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Arnulfo SoteloU.S. Air Force veteran of World War I. Born 1895, died 1966; buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 343 records for Sotelo in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
France4 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Marie Nativa SoteloBorn 1918 in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône); died 1995 in Aubignan (Vaucluse).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Camille Louis SoteloBorn 1906 in Spain; died 1999 in Cébazat (Puy-de-Dôme).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Juan Agelio SoteloBorn 1936 in Chile; died 2001 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 3 of 4 records for Sotelo in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sotelo.
- Sorrentino 4,956 · U.S. census
- Sorto 6,523 · U.S. census
- Sory 258 · U.S. census
- Sosa 52,457 · U.S. census
- Sosnowski 1,844 · U.S. census
- Sot 194 · U.S. census
- Soter 553 · U.S. census
- Soto 144,451 · U.S. census
- Sottile 1,415 · U.S. census
- Sotto 649 · U.S. census
- Sou 982 · U.S. census
- Souchet 132 · U.S. census
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