Soka
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Soka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 43K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 62K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
376 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #570 | 376 | 1 in 11K | 376 | Soka | 10 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Soka | 11 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Soka | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 263 | Soka | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 5 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 16 | 1 in 131K | 16 | — | 1 |
376 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SURS — resident population given names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Soka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, rope
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnv, to punch, hit, spear, inject, knock holes in, pierce; to bore, as a termite; to knock from a tree, as coconuts or papayas; to touch a person lightly with the fingers, perhaps as a sexual invitation; to plant, as bananas
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fj, the ribs of a boat; the short beams or braces joining the middle of the companion pieces to the centerpole in a native house; the smaller transversal beams of a house
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wyy, ribs of a boat; smaller transverse beams of a house, joining the top plates
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swahili, soccer (US), football (elsewhere)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, unfasten, undo, untie, break off
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Imanuela Ayu Sokab. 2007IDbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Is Soka a male or female name?
- Soka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Soka have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 376 people named Soka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soka.
- Where is Soka most common?
- Soka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Soka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 376 people named Soka in 2021, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Soka compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Soka is the 570th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Soka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokaThe 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, “Soka” — the 570th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.