Sokolowska Surname
Approximately 793 people bear this surname
Sokolowska Surname User-submission:
Sokolowski and its variants are Slavic surnames common to Poland. At one time Sokolowski would have been considered a surname of the nobility. As commoners adopted the naming trends of the upper classes, they also adopted their lord's surnames.
Read More About This SurnameSokolowska Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 182 | 1:208,839 | 27,573 |
| England | 168 | 1:331,655 | 24,447 |
| United States | 137 | 1:2,645,686 | 159,417 |
| Belgium | 57 | 1:201,696 | 26,362 |
| Canada | 37 | 1:995,827 | 74,831 |
| Germany | 31 | 1:2,596,950 | 129,424 |
| Sweden | 29 | 1:339,543 | 23,803 |
| Netherlands | 22 | 1:767,599 | 58,330 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 1:167,731 | 8,683 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Italy | 9 | 1:6,795,188 | 113,457 |
| Scotland | 9 | 1:594,869 | 21,724 |
| Norway | 9 | 1:571,365 | 44,190 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
The alternate forms: Sokolowská (3) are calculated separately.
Sokolowska Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Sokolowski and its variants are Slavic surnames common to Poland. At one time Sokolowski would have been considered a surname of the nobility. As commoners adopted the naming trends of the upper classes, they also adopted their lord's surnames.
Broken down Sokolowski means 'from the town of falcon'. Sokol is the Slavic word for 'falcon'; Sokolow is a town in Poland; and -ski, -sky, and -ska are suffixes meaning 'of the' or 'from the'. The suffix changes for male/female and also for whatever spelling is considered most correct for the area. Poles use -ski, and Czechs tend to use -sky.
- noclafThis is a Polish surname, denoting someone who came from Sokołowo ('place of falcons'; sokół, meaning 'falcon'), ten locations in Poland.
- deleted-173293Sokolowska Demographics
Sokolowska Political Affiliation
in United States
United States
Average
Sokolowska Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sokolowska Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sokolowska occurs in Poland more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Sokolowská. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sokolowska? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 433,610th most frequently occurring last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 9,189,844 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 73 percent of Sokolowska live; 31 percent live in Northern Europe and 24 percent live in British Isles.
The surname Sokolowska is most widely held in Poland, where it is borne by 182 people, or 1 in 208,839. Besides Poland this surname occurs in 41 countries. It is also found in England, where 21 percent reside and The United States, where 17 percent reside.
Sokolowska Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Sokolowska are 3.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 50% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Sokolowska earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 8.38% less than the national average, earning $39,531 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.3% less than the national average, earning $43,572 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Descriptions may contain details on the name's etymology, origin, ethnicity and history. They are largely reproduced from 3rd party sources; diligence is advised on accepting their validity - more information
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sokolowska
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis