Sofía
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sofia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sofía 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.
- 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 Sofía 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)
- Sources
- 446 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
360,470 named Zofia, 2026
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 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)
Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sofía 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 | #889 | 360,470as Zofia | 1 in 106 | 360K | סופיה | 74 |
| US United States | #729 | 327,891as Sophia | 1 in 1K | 327K | Sofia | 444 |
| BR Brazil | #243 | 287,227 | 1 in 737 | 287K | Sofia | 175 |
| RU Russia | #77 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 538 | #40 | Софья | 187 |
| FR France | #18 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 285 | 247K | Sophie | 446 |
| SE Sweden | #9 | 96,038 | 1 in 106 | 96K | Sofia | 162 |
| FI Finland | #186 | 65,965 | 1 in 84 | 103K | София | 59 |
| PT Portugal | #22 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | listed | Sofia | 189 |
| HU Hungary | — | 41,439as Zsófia | 1 in 236 | 41K | — | 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); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sofía is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Faroese, a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sophia Dorothea of Hanoverb. 1687DEnot in their usual namePrussian royal consort of Frederick William I
- Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelb. 1724DEnot in their usual nameDuchess consort of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld from 1764 to 1800
- Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmarkb. 1914GRnot in their usual nameGreek princess (1914-2001); elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Karla Sofía Gascónb. 1972ESSpanish actress
- Keiko Fujimorib. 1975PEnot in their usual name67th President of Peru
- Paz de la Huertab. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Sofia Kokkalib. 1988GRGreek actress
- Sofia Carsonb. 1993USAmerican singer, actress, dancer and songwriter
- Sofía Reyesb. 1995MXMexican singer-songwriter
- Infanta Sofía of Spainb. 2007ESyounger child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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)
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 183 | #1,082 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 183 | #1,082 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 68 | #11,122 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2026 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sofía mean, and where does it come from?
- Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sofía 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 Sofía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sofía is densest in Finland — about 1 in 84 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Sofía?
- In the etymology graph, Sophie, Sophia and Sonya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sofía?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 287,227 people named Sofía in 2022, about 1 in 737 residents.
- How common is Sofía compared with other names?
- In Poland, Sofía is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Sofía?
- A machine transcription gives /sofia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Sofía a male or female name?
- Sofía 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.
What do you want to know about Sofía?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sof%C3%ADaThe 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, “Sofía” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.