Sokolov (surname)


Sokolov or Sokolova is one of the top ten most common Russian family names and has Cossack roots.
The name derives from the Russian word "Со́кол". It may appear in Germanized form as Sokoloff or Sokolow.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, of all known bearers of the surname Sokolov, the following countries had, as residents, the following shares of the international population of persons bearing the name:*
*The worst case limit of the error attributable ‘’solely’’ to the effect of the rounding of the percentages attributed to each country is for total collective share for these 7 countries being high or low by 3.5 “percentage points”, i.e., that the effect of rounding errors can be guaranteed with certainty only to the extent that the total of these seven countries‘ shares lies within the range 93.0% and 100% -- though the 96.0% to 97.0% range is far likelier than such extreme results.
Within Russia, the frequency was higher than the population-proportionate contribution to the national average 76.3% share, in each of the following constituents of the Russian Federation:
  1. Kostroma Oblast
  2. Vologda Oblast
  3. Tver Oblast
  4. Ivanovo Oblast
  5. Yaroslavl Oblast
  6. Mari El
  7. Altai Republic
  8. Kurgan Oblast
  9. Vladimir Oblast
  10. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
  11. Leningrad Oblast
  12. Saint Petersburg
  13. Moscow Oblast
  14. Murmansk Oblast
  15. Irkutsk Oblast
  16. Tula Oblast
  17. Moscow
  18. Saratov Oblast
  19. Oryol Oblast
  20. Volgograd Oblast
  21. Sakhalin Oblast
  22. Republic of Karelia
  23. Arkhangelsk Oblast
  24. Khakassia
  25. Sverdlovsk Oblast
  26. Chelyabinsk Oblast
  27. Kaluga Oblast
  28. Kaliningrad Oblast
  29. Smolensk Oblast

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