Sôfîa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sôfîa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija, “Sophie, Sophia”), named after the Church of St. Sofia.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 84(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 106
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 175

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sôfîa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

360,470 named Zofia, 2026

#143 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
446 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SôfîaLatin(measured from records)
СофьяCyrillic(measured from records)
סופיהHebrew(measured from records)
ΣοφιαGreek(measured from records)
ՍոֆյաArmenian(measured from records)
โซเฟียThai(measured from records)
სოფიაGeorgian(measured from records)
소피아Hangul(measured from records)

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sofia in US United States, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 1 more, Софья in RU Russia, Sophie in FR France and סופיה in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija, “Sophie, Sophia”), named after the Church of St. Sofia.

Sources 10

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Russian Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sôfîa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sôfîa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#889360,470as Zofia1 in 106360Kסופיה74
US United States#729327,891as Sophia1 in 1K327KSofia444
BR Brazil#243287,2271 in 737287KSofia175
RU Russia#77≈260,000 est.≈1 in 538#40Софья187
FR France#18≈240,000 est.≈1 in 285247KSophie446
SE Sweden#996,0381 in 10696KSofia162
FI Finland#18665,9651 in 84103KСофия59
PT Portugal#22≈59,000 est.≈1 in 175listedSofia189
HU Hungary—41,439as Zsófia1 in 23641K—3

360,470 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling zofia. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sôfîa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sôfîa mean, and where does it come from?
From Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija, “Sophie, Sophia”), named after the Church of St. Sofia. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 8 other sources.
Is Sôfîa a male or female name?
Sôfîa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sôfîa have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 360 thousand people named Zofia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sôfîa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sôfîa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 84 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sôfîa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 287,227 people named Sôfîa in 2022, about 1 in 737 residents.
How common is Sôfîa compared with other names?
In Poland, Sôfîa is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sôfîa” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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