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Updated June 9, 2019

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.).

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