Sok
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sok has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.
Babies named Sok, 1992
1 in 768,000
Sok over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sok over time
In 1992, Sok went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sok?
Sok had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sok sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sok. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Soks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sok was born before 1985 — so the typical Sok is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 82.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Sok rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1985 (10)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Sok around the world
Where Sok ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1983–1989#2,871in 1989
- South Australia1984–1991#481in 1991
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sok by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Sok
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sok
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.