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sotomayor Name Meaning and History

Spanish: Castilianized form of Soutomaior, a habitational name from the name of two places in Pontevedra and Ourense provinces, Galicia, so named from souto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ + maior ‘larger’, ‘main’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sotomayor Families in the US in 1920
Number of sotomayor families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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