Sopa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Stop Online Piracy Act
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/səpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sopa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 2.1Kas โสภา(inferred from the name graph)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 32K
- SISlovenia≈1 in 165K
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 Sopa 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 named โสภา, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sopha in US United States, SE Sweden and โสภา in TH Thailand.
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)Initialism of Stop Online Piracy Act.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sopa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #150 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | register #53,689 | โสภา | 102 |
| US United States | — | 402as Sopha | 1 in 827K | 443 | Sopha | 57 |
| BR Brazil | — | 320as Sopha | 1 in 662K | 320 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 28as Sopha | 1 in 364K | 48 | Sopha | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 333K | 354 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 79 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Sopa | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Sopa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, soup
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Irish, present subjunctive analytic of sop (“light with fire”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, third-person singular present of sopėti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, knot (whorl of wood left by a branch)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, garment, piece of clothing
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)- René Sopab. 1961FRFrench jazz musician
- Maria SopaPLPolish chemist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 354 | #3,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 193 | #94,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149 | #46,646 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 79 | #5,349 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,144 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 does the name Sopa mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Stop Online Piracy Act. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sopa?
- A machine transcription gives /səpə/ (IPA) for Thai.
- In which country does Sopa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named โสภา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sopa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 402 people named Sopha in 2020, about 1 in 827 thousand residents.
- How common is Sopa compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sopa is the 150th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sopa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sopaThe 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, “Sopa” — the 150th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.