Family name origins & meanings
- Greek : from the Greek personal name Sōtērios, an adjectival form meaning ‘redeeming’, ‘saving’, based on the vocabulary word sōtēr ‘savior’, ‘redeemer’ (compare Italian Salvatore), or a reduced form of a patronymic surname based on this (Soterakis, Soteriadis, Soteropoulos, etc.).