Socha
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈsɔ.xa/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Socha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Polish socha, from Proto-Slavic *soxa, from Proto-Indo-European *sokh₂o-.
- PLPoland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 in 112K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
17,961 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Polishsocha(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*soxa(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*sokh₂o-(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Polish socha, from Proto-Slavic *soxa, from Proto-Indo-European *sokh₂o-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian socha, Lower Sorbian socha, Czech socha (“statue, sculpture”), Serbo-Croatian soha, and Russian соха (soxa).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Socha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #198 | 17,961 | 1 in 2.1K | 9.1K | Socha | 115 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 4 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,972 | 1 in 112K | 3K | Socha | 102 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 567 | 1 in 19K | 567 | Socha | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 106 | Socha | 47 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 254 | 1 in 21K | 254 | Socha | 22 |
| NO Norway | — | 138 | 1 in 40K | 138 | Socha | 7 |
17,961 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Socha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, crotch of a tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, statue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leopold Sochab. 1909PLPolish sewage inspector, honored as "Righteous among the Nations" (1909–1945)
- Paweł Sochab. 1935PLPolish Roman-Catholic priest
- David Sochab. 1938USAmerican soccer referee (1938–2025)
- Małgorzata Sochab. 1980PLPolish actress
- Michał Sochab. 1981PLPolish film director
- Bartłomiej Sochab. 1981PLPolish footballer
- Aleksandra Sochab. 1982PLfencer
- Michael Sochab. 1987GBBritish actor
- Lauren Sochab. 1990GBBritish actress
- Alexandra Sochab. 1990USAmerican actress
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9.1K | #168 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8.9K | #167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,787 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 567 | #2,642 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 564 | #2,541 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 254 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 138 | #11,347 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 106 | #31,959 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Socha mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Polish socha, from Proto-Slavic *soxa, from Proto-Indo-European *sokh₂o-. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Socha?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈsɔ.xa/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈso.t͡ʃa/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Socha have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Socha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled socha.
- Where is Socha most common?
- Socha is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Socha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 17,961 people named Socha in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Socha compared with other names?
- In Poland, Socha is the 198th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sochaThe 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, “Socha” — the 198th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.