Given name & surname
Sokol
“falcon”
Sokol is a surname from Proto-Slavic. It is used in English, Czech, Albanian, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sokol goes back to Proto-Slavic *sokolъ, meaning “falcon.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sokol through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 428 as a first name in 2020; 5,338 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sokol’s family of names
Sokol may belong to the same name family as SOKOLL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sokol
- Sokol CikalleshiAlbanian footballerborn 1990
- Sokol KushtaAlbanian footballerborn 1964
- Sokol BaciAlbanian rebel against Ottoman rule1837–1920
- Sokol BallaAlbanian journalist, writer and talk show hostborn 1973
- Sokol OlldashiAlbanian politician (1972-2013)
- Sokol MaliqiSwiss footballerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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