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Corthell on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:34:34 AM
Last name origin & meaning: Sotomayor 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’.