Sôfîa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sôfîa is a female 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. Sôfîa is also written Софья in Cyrillic, סופיה in Hebrew and Σοφια in Greek.
- FIFinland1 in 84(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 106
- PTPortugal≈1 in 140
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)
- #143 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 446 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
360,470 named Zofia, 2026
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sôfîa in other scripts: Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek and 4 more
(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.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 360,470as Zofia | 1 in 106 | 360K | סופיה | 74 |
| US United States | #729 | 327,891as Sophia | 1 in 1K | 327K | Sofia | 444 |
| FR France | #18 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 233 | 247K | Sophie | 446 |
| BR Brazil | #243 | 287,227 | 1 in 737 | 287K | Sofia | 175 |
| RU Russia | #77 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | register #40 | Софья | 187 |
| SE Sweden | #9 | 96,038 | 1 in 106 | 96K | Sofia | 162 |
| PT Portugal | #22 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 138 | listed | Sofia | 189 |
| FI Finland | — | 65,965 | 1 in 84 | 103K | София | 59 |
| GR Greece | #72 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | 230K | Σοφια | 168 |
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); According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; 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). 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
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.
- Which countries have the most people named Sôfîa?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 360 thousand people named Zofia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, France, Brazil and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 Sweden, Sôfîa is the 9th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B4f%C3%AEaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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” — ranked 14th in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.