Sofia

given name · Latin script

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

Sofia 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. In English, recorded as A female given name, variant of Sophia.

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 Sofia 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)

SofiaLatin(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)

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Софья in RU Russia, Sophie in FR France, סופיה in PL Poland and София in FI Finland.

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)

Variant spelling of Sophia. Sofie ° Variant spelling of Sophie.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sofia is read(measured from records)

Sofia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish60%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofia in Spanish.

  • English7.8%

    A female given name, variant of Sophia.

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

  • Portuguese7.2%

    a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

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

  • French5.5%

    Variante de Sophia/Sophie, « sagesse ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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)

Sofia 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 Sofia 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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Finnish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sofía, Šofia, Sofiâ, Sôfìà, Sõfiä

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sofía, 'Sofia, Sofia'

  • Hindi given name86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, Bangladesh, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Russian

    Also written Sufiya, Суфия, Sufia, সুফিয়া, Sufya

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Sofia͏, Sofiá, Sofía, Sofìa, Sofiâ

  • Urdu given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Spain

    Also written Sofía

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Spain, Russia

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Sofía, Sofìa

  • Albanian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Sofía, Söfïa, Sofìa, Šöfià, Sofja

73 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)

Sofia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Variant spelling of Sophia. Sofie ° Variant spelling of Sophie.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, do nome gr. Sophía; matronímico ligado à matriarca do tronco familiar

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Greek, Greek sophía 'wisdom'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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)

1850190019502000Sofia Kovalevskaia, b. 1850Sophia of Prussia, b. 1870Astrid of Sweden, b. 1905Ingrid of Sweden, b. 1910Sofia Gubaidulina, b. 1931Sophia Loren, b. 1934Queen Sofía of Spain, b. 1938Sofia Coppola, b. 1971Sofia Carson, b. 1993Sofia Kenin, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 157 sources across 76 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022287K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—286K#105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020151K#368
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—103K#9
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—96K#28
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—75K#585
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—66K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202058K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202432K#33
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202031K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8.5K#207
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20268.5K#207

Reference works 6

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

In which country does Sofia 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 Sofia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sofia 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 Sofia?
In the etymology graph, Sonia, Sophie and Sophia are forms of the same name in other languages.
Where does the name Sofia come from?
Variant spelling of Sophia. Sofie ° Variant spelling of Sophie. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
How common is the name Sofia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 287,227 people named Sofia in 2022, about 1 in 737 residents.
How common is Sofia compared with other names?
In Poland, Sofia is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
Is Sofia a male or female name?
Sofia 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 does the name Sofia mean?
In English, A female given name, variant of Sophia.

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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, “Sofia” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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