Sokolow

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Sokolow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Sokołów.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 447Kas Sokolov(measured from records)
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 171K
  • BEBelgium1 in 902K

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 Sokolow 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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,045 named Sokolov, 2026

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sokolov in PL Poland, EE Estonia, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

Borrowed from Polish Sokołów.

Sources 1

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sokolow 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 Sokolow is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,045as Sokolov1 in 37K1KSokolov3
US United States744as Sokolov1 in 447K888Sokolow197
EE Estonia541as Sokolov1 in 2.3K541Sokolov13
FI Finland312as Sokolov1 in 18K312—6
ES Spain230as Sokolov1 in 217K230Sokolov7
NO Norway128as Sokolov1 in 43K128—1
SI Slovenia60as Sokolov1 in 35K60—1
JM Jamaica≈16 est.≈1 in 171K—Sokolow1
BE Belgium131 in 902K13Sokolov7

1,045 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Sokolow is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Sokolów

  • Russian surname63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Соколов, Sokolov, Sokołów, Sokołow, Соколову

38 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Vladimir Sokoloff, b. 1889Anna Sokolow, b. 1910Sergey Sokolov, b. 1911Vladimir Sokolov, b. 1928Grigory Sokolov, b. 1950Oleg Sokolov, b. 1956Alec Sokolow, b. 1965Maksim Sokolov, b. 1968Vladimir Kramnik, b. 1975Alexei Sokolov, b. 1979

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 Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Sokolow
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010519#41,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000497#41,320
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020479#47,689
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#38,179
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200813#62,459
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#388,788
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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

What does the name Sokolow mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Polish Sokołów. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sokolow?
A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑkəɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sokolow have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Sokolov, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sokolow?
In Belgium, the national register counted 13 people named Sokolow in 2008, about 1 in 902 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, “Sokolow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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