Sofiya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səwfʲijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sofiya 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 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 Sofiya 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, as Sofia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sofiya 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 | 287,227as Sofia | 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 | 96,038as Sofia | 1 in 106 | 96K | Sofia | 162 |
| FI Finland | #186 | 65,965as Sofia | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sophie von der Pfalzb. 1630DEnot in their usual namePrincess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701
- Sophia of Nassaub. 1836DEnot in their usual nameSwedish queen (1836–1913)
- Sophia Tolstayab. 1844RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1844–1919)
- Sophie Schollb. 1921DEnot in their usual nameGerman resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
- Sofia Gubaidulinab. 1931RUSoviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)
- Sophia Mylesb. 1980GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1980)
- Sophia Bushb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Alice Eveb. 1982GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Sophia Anne Carusob. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Sophia Lillisb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,310 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #382 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.8K | #382 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 99 | #2,920 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #8,926 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 51 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,689 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 24 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #6,310 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Sofiya?
- In the etymology graph, Sofia, Sophie and Sophia are forms of the same name in other languages; Sonya is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Sofiya?
- In Poland, the national register counted 360,470 people named Zofia in 2026, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Sofiya compared with other names?
- In Poland, Sofiya is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Sofiya?
- A machine transcription gives /səwfʲijə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sofiya a male or female name?
- Sofiya 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 Sofiya 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 Sofiya most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sofiya itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 84 people named Sofia.
What do you want to know about Sofiya?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sofiyaThe 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, “Sofiya” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.