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    The surname Sok

    A Khmer surname, carried by 4,569 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Sok: #7,295 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sok #7,295, 4,569 people Sok: #7,295 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sok #7,295, 4,569 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sok is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    Khmer origin

    From Khmer សុខ (sok).

    One of 19 Khmer surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,569 people named Sok in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,574 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,684.

    #7,295
    rank among US surnames
    4,569
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +24%
    change since 2000 (was #8,271)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,291Wortman4,57267,530
    #7,292Clair4,57167,544
    #7,293Via4,57067,559
    #7,295Weitzel4,56967,574
    #7,298Halliday4,56867,589
    #7,301Grass4,56767,604

    Who is named Sok

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Sok identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 5.3% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 90%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sok

    Sok has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other Khmer surnames

    All 19 Khmer surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sok come from?
    From Khmer សុខ (sok).
    How common is the surname Sok?
    4,569 people in the United States had the surname Sok in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,574 Americans. It ranked 7,295th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sok?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sok identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 5.3% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sok getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,684 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,569 in 2010, up 24%.