Sokoloff
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sokoloff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian surname Соколов (Sokolov).
- USUnited States1 in 390K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 78K
- CACanada≈1 in 213K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
853 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian surname Соколов (Sokolov).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sokoloff 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.
853 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 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikolai Sokoloffb. 1886USUkrainian - American conductor and violinist (1886-1965)
- Boris Sokoloffb. 1893USRussian politician, doctor, soldier, cancer researcher and author, formerly Russian and U.S. zoologist, and botanist (mycologist)
- Vladimir Sokoloffb. 1913USAmerican pianist and educator
- Eleanor Sokoloffb. 1914USAmerican pianist and teacher (1914–2020)
- Louis Sokoloffb. 1921USAmerican neuroscientist (1921–2015)
- Georges Sokoloffb. 1935FRFrench historian (1935-2015)
- Kenneth Sokoloffb. 1952USAmerican economist
- Naomi B. Sokoloffb. 1953USacademic
- Dmitry D. Sokoloffb. 1973RURussian botanist and university teacher
- Marla Sokoloffb. 1980USAmerican actress
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 901 | #25,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 853 | #28,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 841 | #29,833 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #16,873 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Sokoloff mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian surname Соколов (Sokolov). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sokoloff have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 853 people named Sokoloff, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sokoloff.
- Where is Sokoloff most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sokoloff is densest in Finland — about 1 in 78 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sokoloff?
- In the United States, the national register counted 853 people named Sokoloff in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokoloffThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sokoloff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.