Sobek

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈsoʊbɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sobek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 15K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 22K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 23K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,774 people, 2026

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Sobek (ancient Egyptian god of pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, commonly depicted with the head of a crocodile)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sobek is read(measured from records)

Sobek is one spelling over 3 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.

  • English63%

    An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sobek in German.

  • Polish7.4%

    Sobek (ancient Egyptian god of pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, commonly depicted with the head of a crocodile)

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Sobek 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.

Where Sobek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,7741 in 22K901Sobek43
CZ Czechia7231 in 15K723Sobek43
US United States6001 in 554K661Sobek32
SK Slovakia2401 in 23K240Sobek20
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 653K35Sobek11
CA Canada≈91 est.≈1 in 416K—Sobek2
SE Sweden≈19 est.≈1 in 549K—Sobek7

1,774 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sobek is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: English, German, Turkish

    Also written Şobek, Şöbek, Söbek

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Šobek, Şobek

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Şobek, Şöbek

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Serbia

    Also written Şobek, Šöbek

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Şöbek, Söbek

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Şöbek

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sobek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, ripped, torn

    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)

19001920194019601980Hanne Sobek, b. 1900Franz Sobek, b. 1903Chips Sobek, b. 1920Paweł Sobek, b. 1929Josef Sobek, b. 1930Wolfgang Sobek, b. 1945Werner Sobek, b. 1953Evžen Sobek, b. 1967Petr Sobek, b. 1974

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)

FormalDear Sobek,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Sobek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026901—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—901#3,409
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026873—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—873#3,629
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—723#2,012
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—723#1,956
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020661#36,437
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010600#37,180
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000567#37,043
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995240—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200235#63,515
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Sobek come from?
Sobek (ancient Egyptian god of pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, commonly depicted with the head of a crocodile) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sobek?
A machine transcription gives /ˈsoʊbɪk/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Sobek mean?
In English, An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.
In which country does Sobek have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Sobek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sobek.
Where is Sobek most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sobek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sobek?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,774 people named Sobek in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Sobek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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