Sohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sohn as the old Hebraic name of Moses
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 69K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Sohn as the old Hebraic name of Moses. Only in the Müll- heim area. Baden.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sohn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Sohn | 11 |
| US United States | — | 4,796 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Sohn | 339 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Sohn | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Sohn | 111 |
| KR South Korea | #120 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Sohn | 134 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Sohn | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 147 | 1 in 40K | 147 | Sohn | 40 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Sohn is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from nd. Sähn 'son'; diminutive/compound forms from OHG/ND forms of 'son'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Patronymic/kinship surname from 'son'; bearers 1272.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Patronymisch aus mhd. sun/son, mnd. sone 'Sohn'; auch als vertrauliche Anrede älterer Personen. 1257+15 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, nd. Sähn. Sohn|ius, emann (x SUN); Sohn- chen, Söhn|(e)l, lin, le(i)n, (i')gen, chen = Soh- nekdnd (< nd. Vklf. sone- kin); Söngen. Stiefsohn. Zss. Traut-, Guter]söhn. Söhner "Schwiegersohn"; -söhn > son > sen Sohn|rey, s, ke; Söhn|- holz, s: s. SUN
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Russian, var of Son.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Carl Ferdinand Sohnb. 1805DEGerman artist (1805-1867)
- Sohn Kee-chungb. 1914KRSouth Korean marathon runner (1912–2002)
- Masayoshi Sonb. 1957JPnot in their usual nameJapanese businessman
- Sonja Sohnb. 1964USAmerican actress, activist (b. 1964)
- Peter Sohnb. 1977USAmerican animator and voice actor (born 1977)
- Sohn Won-pyungb. 1979KRSouth Korean author and film director
- Son Ye-jinb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Son Heung-minb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (born 1992)
- Wendyb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Son Chae-youngb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper and singer
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,985 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #7,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,574 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 147 | #3,658 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Sohn come from?
- Sohn as the old Hebraic name of Moses. Only in the Müll- heim area. Baden. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Sohn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sohn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sohn as the old Hebraic name of Moses.
- In which country does Sohn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Sohn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sohn.
- How common is the name Sohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,796 people named Sohn in 2010, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Sohn compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sohn is the 120th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sohnThe 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, “Sohn” — the 120th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.