Sofia

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Sofia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Sophia.

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

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sonia in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 5 more, Валентина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Valentina in CL Chile, CO Colombia and Sophia in NL Netherlands, AU Australia.

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●

Variant spelling of Sophia. Sofie ° Variant spelling of Sophie.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sofia 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●

  • Spanish3.6M42%
  • Portuguese2.3M26%
  • English701K8%
  • Finnish380K4%
  • French256K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish3,642,97342%
Portuguese2,283,79626%
English701,3758%
Finnish380,1134%
French255,5073%

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◐

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

  • Finnish given name387K records spelled Sofia8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sofía, Šofia, Sofiâ, Sõfiä, Sôfìà

  • Hindi given name40K records spelled Sofia88 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Russia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Sufia, Sufiya, Суфия, সুফিয়া, Sufya

  • Indonesian given name35K records spelled Sofia21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

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

  • Romanian given name25K records spelled Sofia10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Spain

    Also written Sofiia, Sofía, Șòfîă, Söfiiă, Sofîía

  • a separate given name23K records spelled Sofia7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Sofía, Sofìâ, Sofia͏, Sofiâ, Sofìa

  • Albanian given name4.0K records spelled Sofia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Sweden, Spain

    Also written Sofía, Sofìa, Sofja, Šöfià, Söfïa

  • Hungarian given name3.8K records spelled Sofia8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Polish

    Also written Szofia, Szófia, Sofía, S̭̤o͖̪̞̭f͖̪͝ͅͅͅi͎̘͔̤̦̤̭a̗͍͚̗̪̫̹, Sôfîà

68 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●

Sofia 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, a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A female given name, variant of Sophia.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, do nome gr. Sophía; matronímico ligado à matriarca do tronco familiar

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Greek, Greek sophía 'wisdom'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Variante de Sophia/Sophie, « sagesse ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020009.7K · 2015

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Sofia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18816
188610
18875
188812
188912
18908
189114
189215
189310
18947
189512
189611
18975
189821
189910
190017
190114
190212
190311
190411
19059
190619
190717
190818
190938
191037
191133
191232
191342
191438
191544
191652
191758
191844
191949
192060
192164
192257
192361
192468
192576
192647
192764
192871
192960
193078
193160
193237
193347
193435
193549
193643
193723
193839
193943
194046
194131
194224
194339
194436
194533
194635
194751
194839
194946
195055
195145
195238
195348
195451
195554
195644
195756
195860
195964
196069
196167
196278
196384
196492
196590
196695
1967104
196890
1969129
1970126
1971157
1972132
1973139
1974144
1975157
1976160
1977190
1978177
1979194
1980192
1981266
1982240
1983262
1984252
1985264
1986245
1987317
1988282
1989323
1990349
1991450
1992453
1993558
1994510
1995607
1996767
19971,183
19981,346
19991,604
20002,094
20012,288
20023,061
20033,488
20044,475
20055,162
20065,082
20076,049
20085,985
20095,696
20106,328
20117,331
20127,837
20139,169
20149,612
20159,702
20169,179
20178,175
20187,667
20197,402
20206,990
20216,983
20227,285
20237,665
20248,113
20258,252

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 141 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Sofia Kovalevskaia, b. 1850Sophia of Prussia, b. 1870Astrid of Sweden, b. 1905Ingrid of Sweden, b. 1910Sofia Gubaidulina, b. 1931Sophia Loren, b. 1934Queen Sofía of Spain, b. 1938Sofia Coppola, b. 1971Sofia Carson, b. 1993Sofia Kenin, b. 1998

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 152 sources across 74 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022287K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—286K#105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020151K#368
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—103K#17
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—100K#95
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—96K#28
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—88K#57
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—75K#585
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—66K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202058K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202440K#39
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202432K#33

Reference works 5

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,851 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sofia?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Sofia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Sofia have the most bearers?
Sofia is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валентина.
How common is Sofia compared with other names?
In Russia, Sofia is the 17th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Sofia a male or female name?
Sofia 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 Sofia mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Sophia.
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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, “Sofia” — the 17th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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