Sophus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: aus dem Lateinischen übernomme ner männl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səfəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sophus is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
- COColombia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
aus dem Lateinischen übernomme ner männl. Vom. griechischen Ursprungs (lat. sophus aus griech. sophös »weise, der
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Sophus 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, A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, A Roman cognomen — famously held by
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)
- Sophus August Vilhelm Steinb. 1797DKDanish physician, surgeon and anatomist, professor of anatomy in Copenhagen University
- Sophus Buggeb. 1833NONorwegian linguist (1833–1907)
- Sophus Mads Jørgensenb. 1837DKDanish chemist (1837-1914)
- Sophus Lieb. 1842NONorwegian mathematician (1842–1899)
- Sophus Müllerb. 1846DKanthropologist
- Anton Rosenb. 1859DKnot in their usual nameDanish architect (1859-1928)
- Sophus Michaëlisb. 1865DKDanish author and songwriter (1865-1932)
- Sophus Claussenb. 1865DKDanish writer (1865-1931)
- Sophus Nielsenb. 1888DKDanish footballer (1888-1963)
- Sophus Hansenb. 1889DKDanish footballer (1889–1962)
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 189 | #101,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 132 | #121,058 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sophus?
- A machine transcription gives /səfəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sophus mean?
- Recorded meaning: aus dem Lateinischen übernomme ner männl.
- In which country does Sophus have the most bearers?
- Sophus is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Sophus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sophusThe 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, “Sophus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.