Sofana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɔfɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sofana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic سُفَانَة (sufāna). The name was famously borne by a daughter of the poet Hatim al-Tai.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 297K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 466K
- SYSyria≈1 in 555K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 297K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic سُفَانَة (sufāna). The name was famously borne by a daughter of the poet Hatim al-Tai.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sofana 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 466K | Sofana | 16 |
| MA Morocco | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 990K | Sofana | 5 |
| SY Syria | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 555K | Sofana | 6 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 297K | Sofana | 9 |
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | Sofana | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 3M | Sofana | 4 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sofana mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic سُفَانَة (sufāna). The name was famously borne by a daughter of the poet Hatim al-Tai. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sofana?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔfɑnə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Sofana a male or female name?
- Sofana 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 Sofana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 people named Sofana in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sofana.
- How common is the name Sofana?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 people in Saudi Arabia have Sofana as their first given name, about 1 in 466 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Sofana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sofanaThe 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, “Sofana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.