Zofia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɔfʲa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zofia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 106(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 70K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 76K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)
360,470 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zofia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zofia 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 | #38 | 360,470 | 1 in 106 | 360K | Zofia | 159 |
| US United States | — | 4,758 | 1 in 70K | 4.7K | Zofia | 207 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,341 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.3K | Zofia | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 9 | Zofia | 79 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 1 | Zofia | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 384 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Zofia | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 315 | 1 in 19K | 315 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 75 | 1 in 4.7K | 75 | — | — |
360,470 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Zofia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish form of SOFIA . Pet form: Zosia .
as a word
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)
- Sofia of Minskb. 1141not in their usual nameDanish queen consort (1140-1198)
- Sophie Holszańskab. 1405PLnot in their usual nameWife of Jogaila, Queen consort of Poland (1405-1461)
- Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbachb. 1464PLnot in their usual namePolish princess (1464-1512)
- Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelb. 1724DEnot in their usual nameDuchess consort of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld from 1764 to 1800
- Sophia Magdalena of Denmarkb. 1746SEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Sweden (1746-1813)
- Princess Sophie of Swedenb. 1801SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess
- Sophia Perovskayab. 1853RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary and assassin of Alexander II (1853–1881)
- Zofia Nałkowskab. 1884PLPolish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)
- Zofia Kossak-Szczuckab. 1889PLPolish writer
- Zofia Wichłaczb. 1995PLPolish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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)
Attested in 64 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 360K | #14 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 360K | #14 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.7K | #4,070 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 4.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,395 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,480 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 571 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 384 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 315 | #765 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 86 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 75 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,070 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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 Zofia?
- In the etymology graph, Sofia, Sophie and Sophia are forms of the same name in other languages; Zosia is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Zofia?
- A machine transcription gives /zɔfʲa/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Zofia 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 it is most often spelled zofia.
- Where is Zofia most common?
- Zofia is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 people carrying it.
- What does the name Zofia mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Zofia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 360,470 people named Zofia in 2026, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Zofia compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zofia is the 38th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
- Is Zofia a male or female name?
- Zofia 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zofiaThe 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, “Zofia” — the 38th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.