Sofija

given name · Latin script

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

Sofija 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 Croatian, recorded as Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria).

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 Sofija 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)

11 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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sofija is read(measured from records)

Sofija 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.

  • Croatian59%

    Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Russian17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofija in Russian.

  • Latvian11%

    Filozofijas jēdziens, kurš apzīmē zinātni, gudrību un augstākās pakāpes iemaņas, kas pilnā mērā pieejamas tikai dieviem, turpretī cilvēks var tikai pēc tām tiekties

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

    Bulgārijas Republikas galvaspilsēta, atrodas Sofijas ieplakā starp Stara Planinu un Vitošas masīvu 530-650 m vjl., 1281600 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

    jūdaisma un kristietības mitoloģiskajā tradīcijā — gudrības dieviete; Vecajā Derībā viņa ir augstākās gudrības personifikācija

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

    Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • English7.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofija in English.

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)

Sofija 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 Sofija 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)

Sofija is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Sofiia

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Sofìja, Sofïja

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Sofiya

39 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, b. 1657Sofia Kovalevskaia, b. 1850Sophia Parnok, b. 1885Sofia Yablonska, b. 1907Sofia Gubaidulina, b. 1931Sofia Andrukhovych, b. 1982Sofya Velikaya, b. 1985Sofya Skya, b. 1987Sofia Mattsson, b. 1989Sofya Lebedeva, b. 1993

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 60 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—677#576
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026677#576
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020535#19,527
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—408#3,196
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020293—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—103#2,839
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—37—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)202535—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202524—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#47,107
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205#19,527

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

In which country does Sofija 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 Sofija most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Sofija 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 Sofija?
In Poland, the national register counted 360,470 people named Zofia in 2026, about 1 in 106 residents.
How common is Sofija compared with other names?
In Poland, Sofija is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What does the name Sofija mean, and where does it come from?
Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Sofija a male or female name?
Sofija 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 are other forms of the name Sofija?
In the etymology graph, Sonia, Sofia and Sophie are forms of the same name in other languages.

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

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