Sophia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sophia 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 from Ancient Greek.
- USUnited States1 in 1K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 84as Sofia
- PLPoland1 in 106as Zofia
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 Sophia 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 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
360,470 named Zofia, 2026
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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)
Greek ‘wisdom’; used in Ireland and as an anglicising form for Sive.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sophia is read(measured from records)
Sophia 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.
- English55%
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sophia in Portuguese.
- Spanish7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sophia in Spanish.
- French5.8%
Du grec *sophia* « 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)
Sophia 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 | 327,891 | 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)
Sophia 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 Irish, Greek ‘wisdom’; used in Ireland and as an anglicising form for Sive.
as a nameIrish first names
In grc, Greek sophia 'wisdom'; also a martyr name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Greek, ‘wisdom’. This name was used to anglicise the Irish name Sive.
as a nameIrish first names
In Swedish, Se Sofia.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- 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. 1836DESwedish queen (1836–1913)
- Sophia Tolstayab. 1844RURussian writer (1844–1919)
- Sophie Schollb. 1921DEnot in their usual nameGerman resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
- Sophia Mylesb. 1980GBEnglish actress (born 1980)
- Sophia Bushb. 1982USAmerican actress
- Alice Eveb. 1982GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Gugu Mbatha-Rawb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1983)
- Sophia Anne Carusob. 2001USAmerican actress
- Sophia Lillisb. 2002USAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 147 sources across 82 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 327K | #154 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 208K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 207K | #153 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 45K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 22K | #1,293 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 17K | #106 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6.9K | #506 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.4K | #348 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2.4K | #348 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.5K | #634 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Sophia?
- In the etymology graph, Sonia, Sofia and Sophie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sophia 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 Sophia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sophia is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- Where does the name Sophia come from?
- Greek ‘wisdom’; used in Ireland and as an anglicising form for Sive. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How common is the name Sophia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 327,891 people named Sophia in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sophia compared with other names?
- In Poland, Sophia is the 889th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
- Is Sophia a male or female name?
- Sophia 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 Sophia mean?
- In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sophiaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sophia” — the 889th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.