Sócrates
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈso.kɾa.t̪es/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Sócrates is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 20K
- PEPeru≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sócrates itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Socrates in PE Peru, BR Brazil, US United States and 3 more, Σωκρατης in GR Greece and Sokratis in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sócrates is read
(measured from records)Sócrates is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish50%
Del griego Σωκράτης: ‘fuerza sana’, ‘de sana autoridad’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese39%
Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sócrates counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Socrates | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,836 | 1 in 115K | 1.9K | Socrates | 76 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Socrates | 38 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #508 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Socrates | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,202 | 1 in 277K | 1.2K | Socrates | 171 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 853 | 1 in 20K | 853 | Socrates | 20 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 806as Σωκρατης | 1 in 1.6K | 806 | Sokratis | 37 |
| GR Greece | #660 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 51 | Σωκρατης | 89 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); INEC — civil registry names; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Socrates of Constantinopleb. 380TR5th century Greek Christian church historian
- Socratesb. 470GR5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
- Sokratis Kokkalisb. 1939GRnot in their usual nameGreek businessman
- Sócratesb. 1954BRBrazilian association football player (1954–2011)
- Sokratis Hasicosb. 1956CYnot in their usual nameCypriot politician
- José Sócratesb. 1957PTPrime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011
- Socrates B. Villegasb. 1960PHCatholic archbishop
- Sócrates Parri Romerob. 1966ESSpanish association football player
- Sokratis Papastathopoulosb. 1988GRnot in their usual nameGreek association football player
- Socrates ChrestusGreek prince and king of Bithynia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.9K | #6,183 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sócrates mean, and where does it come from?
- Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sócrates?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈso.kɾa.t̪es/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ˈsɔ.kɾa.tes/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Sócrates a male or female name?
- Sócrates is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sócrates have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Sócrates in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled socrates.
- How common is the name Sócrates?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,836 people named Sócrates in 2022, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Sócrates compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Sócrates is the 508th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sócrates?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B3cratesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sócrates” — the 508th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.