Sokolov (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:[a]
Share of population of last name Sokolov by country, as of 2014
Within Russia, the frequency was higher than the population-proportionate contribution to the national 76.3% share, in each of the following constituents of the Russian Federation:[3][vague]
^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.
References
^Никонов В. А. "Словарь русских фамилий".
Соколов. Сост. Е. Л. Крушельницкий. Москва, Школа-Пресс, 1993. 224 с.
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Sokolov (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:[a]
Share of population of last name Sokolov by country, as of 2014
Within Russia, the frequency was higher than the population-proportionate contribution to the national 76.3% share, in each of the following constituents of the Russian Federation:[3][vague]
^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.
References
^Никонов В. А. "Словарь русских фамилий".
Соколов. Сост. Е. Л. Крушельницкий. Москва, Школа-Пресс, 1993. 224 с.
This page lists people with the
surnameSokolov, Sokolova. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.