Sota
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Sota is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
What does Sota mean?
Japanese
A Japanese male given name.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Sota a girl's or a boy's name?
Sota is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sota in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,859th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 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, 15 boys in the US were named Sota, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had more boys named Sota than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Sota in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sota in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 22 | #4,405 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
Names like Sota
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaizen, Tru, Kairo, Kenzo, Sakai, Kota, Akari, Luca, Koda, Chozen, Kasai, Sutton
Names related to Sota
More Japanese names
Kobe, Raiden, Ren, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen, Sora
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, “Sota: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sota, updated 20 October 2026.