Sok
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Khmer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 73K(measured from records)
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 8.6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,569 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Silla aristocratic clan mentioned as having a divine-origin myth.
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sok is read(measured from records)
Sok is one spelling over 5 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.
- English52%
A surname from Khmer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Khmer14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sok in Khmer.
- French7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sok in French.
- Korean6.1%
Silla aristocratic clan mentioned as having a divine-origin myth.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
- Malay5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sok in Malay.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sok 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,569 | 1 in 73K | 5K | Sok | 89 |
| KP North Korea | #368 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Sok | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sok | 20 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sok | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 150 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sok | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 137 | 1 in 15K | 137 | — | 1 |
4,569 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Sok is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, •— tg" The name of a light-col- ored wood, burnt in idol- ' atrous worship/ with the Sh'u. if'ang or saudal-wood ； it is said to {Hng '■hvn) kindle the sandal - wood : coll., sok) incense-woods.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to take places, as at a feast, a seat, to buy up mountain products, as paper, bamboo sprouts, etc
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a general, commander-in-chief, to to sit, to be seated, to be a schoolmaster, (sing-saing)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, song Be Fy HE to sympathise with, to pity, to give alms to
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Shu Xingbeib. 1905CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist (1905-1983)
- Seok Geum-seongb. 1907KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Seok Joo-myungb. 1908KRnot in their usual nameKorean entomologist (1908–1950)
- Seok Ju-seonb. 1911KRnot in their usual nameKorean folklorist (1911-1996)
- Seok Rae-myeongb. 1936KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director
- Suk Min-Heeb. 1968KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
- Seok Eun-Mib. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean table tennis player
- Seok Ha-jungb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameChinese-born South Korean table tennis player
- Seok Seunghunb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Suk Hyun-junb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,535 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,295 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,271 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 235 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 150 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 137 | #3,289 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 47 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Sok come from?
- Silla aristocratic clan mentioned as having a divine-origin myth. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Sok?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sok mean?
- In English, A surname from Khmer.
- In which country does Sok have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Sok, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sok.
- How common is the name Sok?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,569 people named Sok in 2010, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Sok compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Sok is the 368th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokThe 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, “Sok” — the 368th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.