Sofya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sowfʲiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sofya 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. Recorded meaning: From Greek Sophia ‘wisdom’. See )Sophie in main dictionary. Sonya @ Pet form of sorya.
- 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 Sofya 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(measured from records)
From Greek Sophia ‘wisdom’. See )Sophie in main dictionary. Sonya @ Pet form of sorya.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sofya 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sofya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
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 Alekseyevna of Russiab. 1657RUnot in their usual nameRussian tsarevna (1657–1704)
- Sofia Kovalevskaiab. 1850SE19th-century Russian mathematician
- Sofya Velikayab. 1985RURussian fencer
- Sofya Skyab. 1987RURussian ballet dancer and actor
- Sonya Tayurskayab. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer, member of Little Big
- Sofya Lebedevab. 1993RURussian actress
- Sofya Ardovab. 1996RURussian actress
- Sofia Sapegab. 1998RURussian student
- Sofya Berultsevab. 2000KZKazakhstani karateka
- Sofia Samodelkinab. 2007RURussian figure skater
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 51 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,704 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 585 | #1,006 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 387 | #735 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 387 | #735 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 315 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 224 | #13,049 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 209 | #24,621 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 73 | #3,757 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 42 | #15,313 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sofya?
- A machine transcription gives /sowfʲiə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Sofya mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Sophia ‘wisdom’. See )Sophie in main dictionary. Sonya @ Pet form of sorya. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Sofya a male or female name?
- Sofya 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 Sofya?
- 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.
- In which country does Sofya 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 Sofya most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sofya 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 Sofya?
- In Poland, the national register counted 360,470 people named Zofia in 2026, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Sofya compared with other names?
- In Poland, Sofya is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sofyaThe 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, “Sofya” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.