Sokolov (surname)

Sokolov (Russian: Соколо́в, masculine) or Sokolova (Соколо́ва, feminine) is one of the top ten most common Russian family names and has Cossack roots.[1][2] The name derives from the Russian word "Со́кол" (sokol, meaning "falcon"). 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 (to the nearer multiple of the two adjacent multiples of 0.1% -- i.e., to nearest tenth of 1.0%) 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:[3]

  1. Kostroma Oblast (1 in 179)
  2. Vologda Oblast (1 in 251)
  3. Tver Oblast (1 in 260)
  4. Ivanovo Oblast (1 in 269)
  5. Yaroslavl Oblast (1 in 270)
  6. Mari El (1 in 303)
  7. Altai Republic (1 in 368)
  8. Kurgan Oblast (1 in 397)
  9. Vladimir Oblast (1 in 433)
  10. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1 in 494)
  11. Leningrad Oblast (1 in 494)
  12. Saint Petersburg (1 in 526)
  13. Moscow Oblast (1 in 559)
  14. Murmansk Oblast (1 in 597)
  15. Irkutsk Oblast (1 in 626)
  16. Tula Oblast (1 in 631)
  17. Moscow (1 in 649)
  18. Saratov Oblast (1 in 658)
  19. Oryol Oblast (1 in 661)
  20. Volgograd Oblast (1 in 662)
  21. Sakhalin Oblast (1 in 665)
  22. Republic of Karelia (1 in 672)
  23. Arkhangelsk Oblast (1 in 683)
  24. Khakassia (1 in 703)
  25. Sverdlovsk Oblast (1 in 735)
  26. Chelyabinsk Oblast (1 in 740)
  27. Kaluga Oblast (1 in 746)
  28. Kaliningrad Oblast (1 in 747)
  29. Smolensk Oblast (1 in 758)

People

Fictional characters
  • Sokolov, former Russian Spetsnaz in Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde
  • Dr.Sokolov, a character in Ivan Vazov's novel Under the Yoke
  • Game characters:

See also

References
  1. Никонов В. А. "Словарь русских фамилий". Соколов. Сост. Е. Л. Крушельницкий. Москва, Школа-Пресс, 1993. 224 с.
  2. "Sokolov Surname Meaning, Origins & Distribution". forebears.io. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
  3. Sokolov surname distribution
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