Soken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The ancient right (usually conferred by royalty) to hold a local court of justice and levy specific fees and fines
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/səkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.6M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Soken itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Soeken in US United States, DE Germany and Söken in TR Türkiye.
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)The ancient right (usually conferred by royalty) to hold a local court of justice and levy specific fees and fines.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Soken 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Soken | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 902K | — | Soeken | 24 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | Soeken | 52 |
| IN India | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 26M | 21 | Soken | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Söken | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)Soken 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 tpi, stocking
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, voire, en outre, même
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #80,790 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #5,445 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Soken mean, and where does it come from?
- The ancient right (usually conferred by royalty) to hold a local court of justice and levy specific fees and fines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Soken?
- In the etymology graph, Soke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Soken?
- A machine transcription gives /səkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soken have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 136 people named Soken in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soken.
- Where is Soken most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soken is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soken?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 72 people named Soken, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokenThe 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, “Soken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.