Sosie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lookalike
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Sosie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 4.3M
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
161 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)lookalike
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sosie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 161 | 1 in 2.1M | 160 | Sosie | 76 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sosie | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Sosie | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Sosie | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | — | Sosie | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | — | 2 |
161 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the babynamen-king-2020 register. 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)Sosie 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.
In French, Avant de devenir un nom commun, Sosie a été celui d’un personnage de pièces de théâtre, de Plaute puis de Molière. Mercure parvient à faire douter de sa propre identité cet esclave d’Amphitryon, dont il a pris les traits. Depuis lors, un sosie est une personne qui ressemble à une autre comme deux gouttes d’eau.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Romanian, doppelganger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, SOSÍE, sosii, s. f. Persoană care seamănă perfect cu alta, încât nu pot fi deosebite fizic.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sosie a male or female name?
- Sosie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Sosie mean, and where does it come from?
- lookalike Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Sosie?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 161 people named Sosie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosie. After it come Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sosie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161 people named Sosie in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sosieThe 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, “Sosie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.