Sosa
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SOH-sah
- Origin
- Spanish
- US rank, 2025
- #5,397 for boys
Sosa is a boys' name of Spanish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).
Where does Sosa come from?
Spanish: Spanish surname, a form of Portuguese Sousa, from the River Sousa
Is Sosa a girl's or a boy's name?
Sosa is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 17 boys in the US.
How popular is Sosa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,397th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Sosa, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015. 7 girls were also named Sosa in 2025 (11,928th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Sosa in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sosa in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,465 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
Names like Sosa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Luca, Marquez, Thiago, Ares, Sora, Ezra, Santhiago, Viggo, Juancarlos, Rio, Juanpablo, Santiel
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Alaia, Diego, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Ximena, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar, Sierra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sosa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sosa, updated 20 October 2026.