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The soto Surname

soto Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of numerous places named Soto or El Soto, from soto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ (Latin saltus).
  2. Castilianized spelling of Asturian-Leonese Sotu, a habitational name from a town so named in Asturies.
  3. Castilianized spelling of the Galician equivalent, Souto.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The soto name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the soto family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of soto Families in the US in 1920
Number of soto families
 272-541
 91-271		 1-90
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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