Sufiya

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/səfʲijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sufiya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a mystic, someone believing in Sufi mysticism; feminine of Sufi.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2Kas Sofia(measured from records)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 7.7Kas Sufia
  • FIFinland1 in 84as 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 Sufiya 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

287,227 named Sofia, 2022

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland, as Sofia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SufiyaLatin(measured from records)
СуфияCyrillic(measured from records)
ซูฟียะThai(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sufia in US United States, BD Bangladesh and Sofia in ES Spain, SE Sweden.

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)

a mystic, someone believing in Sufi mysticism; feminine of Sufi

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sufiya 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.

Where Sufiya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—287,227as Sofia1 in 737287K——
US United States—151,654as Sofia1 in 2.2K151KSufia126
ES Spain—99,913as Sofia1 in 501100KSofia33
SE Sweden—96,038as Sofia1 in 10696KSofia31
FI Finland—65,965as Sofia1 in 84103K—7
EC Ecuador—39,839as Sofia1 in 42440K—9
BD Bangladesh#145≈21,000 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Sufia43
MD Moldova—20,840as Sofia1 in 16121K—2

287,227 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sufiya is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sūfīyā

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sufiya 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 Arabic, a mystic, someone believing in Sufi mysticism; feminine of Sufi

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, a mystic, someone believing in Sufi mysticism; fem. of Sufi

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Sufiya जी,Hi Sufiya, (English)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sufiya under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sufiya mean, and where does it come from?
a mystic, someone believing in Sufi mysticism; feminine of Sufi Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Sufiya?
A machine transcription gives /səfʲijə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Sufiya a male or female name?
Sufiya 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.
In which country does Sufiya have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 287 thousand people named Sofia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sufiya most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Sufiya 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 Sufiya?
In Brazil, the national register counted 287,227 people named Sofia in 2022, about 1 in 737 residents.
How common is Sufiya compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Sufiya is the 145th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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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, “Sufiya” — the 145th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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