Sokrates
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek sōs 'safe' + kratos 'power'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɔkʁaːtʰəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sokrates is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.6Kas Socrates(inferred from the name graph)
- GRGreece≈1 in 17Kas Sokratis
- PEPeru≈1 in 24Kas Socrates
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 Sokrates itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 named Socrates, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Socrates in PE Peru, BR Brazil, US United States and 3 more, Sokratis in CY Cyprus, SE Sweden and Σωκρατης in GR Greece.
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)
from Greek sōs 'safe' + kratos 'power'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sokrates 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 | — | 1,836as Socrates | 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 | — | 1,202as Socrates | 1 in 277K | 1.2K | Socrates | 171 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 853as Socrates | 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 |
| SE Sweden | — | 66 | 1 in 155K | 66 | Sokratis | 7 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Leopold Sokrates von Rieckeb. 1790DEGerman gynecologist, surgeon and university teacher (1790–1876)
- Sokrates Starynkiewiczb. 1820PLRussian general (1820–1902)
- Sokrates Kapsaskisb. 1928GRGreek film director (1928-2007)
- Sokrates Giapapasb. 1937DEGerman entrepreneur (1937–2020)
- Sokrates T. Pantelidesb. 1948CYphysicist and electrical engineer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 66 | #11,338 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | — | — |
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 Sokrates mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek sōs 'safe' + kratos 'power' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sokrates?
- A machine transcription gives /zɔkʁaːtʰəs/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Sokrates a male or female name?
- Sokrates 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 Sokrates have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Socrates in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sokrates most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sokrates is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sokrates?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 66 people named Sokrates, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
- How common is Sokrates compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Sokrates is the 508th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokratesThe 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, “Sokrates” — the 508th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.