Sofi

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: a diminutive of the female given name Sofía, equivalent to English Sophie

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

/sofi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sofi 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.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 84as Sofia(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 106as Zofia
  • SESweden1 in 106as Sofia

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 Sofi 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, as Sofia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

СофьяCyrillic(measured from records)
SofiaLatin(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)

10 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)

a diminutive of the female given name Sofía, equivalent to English Sophie

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sofi is read(measured from records)

Sofi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish37%

    a diminutive of the female given name Sofía, equivalent to English Sophie

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Indonesian10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofi in Indonesian.

  • English7.9%

    Archaic spelling of Sufi.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Hindi6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofi in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sofi 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 Sofi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#889360,470as Zofia1 in 106360Kסופיה74
US United States#729327,891as Sophia1 in 1K327KSofia444
BR Brazil#243287,227as Sofia1 in 737287KSofia175
RU Russia#77≈260,000 est.≈1 in 538#40Софья187
FR France#18≈240,000 est.≈1 in 285247KSophie446
SE Sweden#996,038as Sofia1 in 10696KSofia162
FI Finland#18665,965as Sofia1 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sofi is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sofí, Sofî, Sofï, Söfï, Sôfî

  • Indonesian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Sofi, Sofi', Sõfï, Söfï, Sofí

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sòfì, Sõfî, Sôfî

  • Turkish given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Spain, Syria, United States

    Also written Şofi, Söfï, Sofí, Sofì, Sôfi

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sofí, Sofî

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Algeria

    Also written Sof'I, Sofí, Sôf'Î

  • Russian given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Софи, Sophie, Софі, Сафі, Sofie

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sofi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In French, Sophy (“archaic form of Safawi”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, a female given name, short for Sofia or Sofie; also popular in the conjoined name Ann-Sofi or Ann-Sofie

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In non, third-person singular/plural present subjunctive active of sofa

    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)

1940196019802000Sofi Zanninou, b. 1951Sofi Marinova, b. 1975Sofi Tsedaka, b. 1975Sofi Oksanen, b. 1977Sofi Fahrman, b. 1979Sofi Mkheyan, b. 1984Sofi Ryan, b. 1992Sofi Goldfinger, b. 1993Sofi Flinck, b. 1995Reetta Hurske, b. 1995

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)

InformalHola Sofi,Hi Sofi, (English)

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 76 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5K#611
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.2K#737
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#11,917
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022865—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—850#9,130
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020276—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—125#1,353
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026125#1,353
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—114#34,062
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202521—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Sofi?
A machine transcription gives /sofi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Sofi mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the female given name Sofía, equivalent to English Sophie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Sofi?
In the etymology graph, Sofia, Sophie and Sophia are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Sofi a male or female name?
Sofi 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 Sofi 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 Sofi most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Sofi itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 84 people named Sofia.
How common is the name Sofi?
In Poland, the national register counted 360,470 people named Zofia in 2026, about 1 in 106 residents.
How common is Sofi compared with other names?
In Poland, Sofi 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, “Sofi” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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