Sofía

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Sofía is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria).

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 41◐
  • GRGreece1 in 48
  • RURussia1 in 68

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 11 countries

#13 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
489 ●

22M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 106 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

ВалентинаCyrillic · Russian●14M records
SoniaLatin · Portuguese●6.4M records
ΣοφιαGreek · Greek●236K records
סופיהHebrew · Hebrew●109K records
ᲨონიაGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
โซเฟียThai · Thai●3.3K records
소피아Hangul · Korean●45 records
ՍոֆիաArmenian · Armenian●17 records
সোরাযারBengali · Bangla●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sonia in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 5 more, Sofia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, GR Greece and 4 more, Валентина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Valentina in CL Chile, CO Colombia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sofía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1715,109,6693.3M rec.—#2Валентина184
UA Ukraine#117,630,0867.6M rec.—listedВалентина85
AR Argentina#224,025,5301.8M rec.—75KSofia162
MX Mexico#60950,721584K rec.—1.6KSofia228
GR Greece#11720,3879.9K rec.—230KSofia157
PE Peru#40641,673456K rec.—#6Sonia92
CL Chile#18631,45152K rec.—2.3KValentina156
BD Bangladesh#50481,603784 rec.——Sonia39
IN India#928407,101249K rec.—315Soniya167
VE Venezuela#52406,751182K rec.—2.8KSonia99
CO Colombia#18401,325151K rec.—602Valentina174
IT Italy#9398,585196K rec.—4.6KSofia224

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish210K71%
  • English75K25%
  • Portuguese2.7K1%
  • Lao1.2K1%
  • French4991%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish209,55871%
English75,45225%
Portuguese2,7271%
Lao1,2341%
French4991%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sofía is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Sofía7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ethiopia

    Also written Sofia, Sofìâ, Sofia͏, Sofiâ, Sofìa

  • Indonesian given name260 records spelled Sofía21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sofia, Sophia, 'Sofia, Sofia', 'Sophia

  • Hindi given name56 records spelled Sofía88 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Russia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Sufia, Sufiya, Sofia, Суфия, সুফিয়া

  • a separate given name40 records spelled Sofía7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Peru, Norway

    Also written Sofia, Sōfia, Sofiå, S̴o̴f̴i̴a̴, ̶s̶o̶f̶i̶a̶

  • Romanian given name39 records spelled Sofía10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Spain

    Also written Sofia, Sofiia, Șòfîă, Söfiiă, Sofîía

  • Finnish given name24 records spelled Sofía8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sofia, Šofia, Sofiâ, Sõfiä, Sôfìà

  • Hungarian given name23 records spelled Sofía8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Polish

    Also written Szofia, Sofia, Szófia, S̭̤o͖̪̞̭f͖̪͝ͅͅͅi͎̘͔̤̦̤̭a̗͍͚̗̪̫̹, Sôfîà

15 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●

Sofía 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.

  • In Faroese, a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

    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.

Over time●

02K4K6K1920194019601980200020205.4K · 2008

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Sofía in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1920–2021
Yearrecords
192034
192156
192250
192357
192464
192557
192667
192791
1928133
192996
1930101
193182
193280
193397
193486
193599
1936102
1937104
193888
1939119
1940138
1941143
1942167
1943165
1944155
1945153
1946171
1947184
1948155
1949176
1950148
1951162
1952140
1953179
1954204
1955197
1956192
1957197
1958221
1959188
1960202
1961187
1962225
1963231
1964219
1965232
1966262
1967229
1968168
1969184
1970202
1971212
1972184
1973205
1974172
1975197
1976187
1977153
1978170
1979160
1980154
1981194
1982221
1983245
1984167
1985205
1986252
1987256
1988296
1989308
1990390
1991419
1992482
1993466
1994602
1995681
19961,113
19971,095
19981,261
19991,644
20001,729
20011,969
20022,389
20032,151
20042,458
20052,683
20062,355
20074,603
20085,368
20094,871
20104,337
20114,458
20124,833
20134,953
20145,045
20154,518
20163,866
20173,461
20183,047
20192,924
20202,465
20212,251

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 102 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

160017001800190020002100Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, b. 1687Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, b. 1724Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, b. 1914Karla Sofía Gascón, b. 1972Keiko Fujimori, b. 1975Paz de la Huerta, b. 1984Sofia Kokkali, b. 1988Sofia Carson, b. 1993Sofía Reyes, b. 1995Infanta Sofía of Spain, b. 2007

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 36 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofía
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HN HondurasThe page reports on the most common names for children in Honduras based on data from the National Registry of Persons (2022111K#1
HN HondurasRNP — cumulative registry names202239K#5
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20085.4K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20145K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20135K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20094.9K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20124.8K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20074.6K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20154.5K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20114.5K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20104.3K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20163.9K—

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 294 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sofía?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Sofía (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Sofía have the most bearers?
Sofía is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валентина.
How common is Sofía compared with other names?
In Russia, Sofía is the 17th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Sofía a male or female name?
Sofía 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.
What does the name Sofía mean?
Recorded meaning: Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sofía” — the 17th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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