Šošo families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and Split. In Baljivac in East Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Šošo.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Šošo live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are only located in in 9 Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Split (25), Citluk (20), Dubrovnik (10), Zagreb (10), and in Sinj (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1937 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.