Sonia

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Sonia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Slavic diminutive of Sophia, from Greek sophia, 'wisdom'.

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●

SoniaLatin · Portuguese●6.4M records
ВалентинаCyrillic · Russian●14M 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 Sofia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, GR Greece and 4 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●

Slavic diminutive of Sophia, from Greek sophia, 'wisdom'

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sonia 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●

  • Portuguese6.4M48%
  • Spanish2.7M20%
  • English1.7M13%
  • French644K5%
  • Hindi563K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese6,436,11948%
Spanish2,708,73420%
English1,708,05913%
French644,1235%
Hindi562,5364%

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◐

Sonia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name1.1M records spelled Sonia85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Sania, Sniya, সোনিয়া, সনিয়া, সুনিয়া

  • French given name773K records spelled Sonia41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sónia, Sônia, Sònia, So-Nia, So'Nia

  • a separate given name97K records spelled Sonia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Sònia, Sónia, Sônia, Sonía, Sôniá

  • Indonesian given name24K records spelled Sonia10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Sonia, Sonia', Sònia, Sónia, Sônia

  • Lao given name7.7K records spelled Sonia25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, India

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written โซเนีย, Sônia, Sónia, Sònia, Soney

77 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●

Sonia 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 English, A female given name from Russian (the usual UK spelling of the name which is spelled Sonya in the US).

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

  • In Russian, Russian hypocoristic of Sofía.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Forme slave de Sophie, d’origine grecque, signifiant « sagesse ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Diminutif slave de Sophia; « sagesse ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Russian, 23 juin (6 juillet), 17 (30) septembre, 18 septembre (1 octobre). Sophie est son équivalent français. Fête : 25 mai.

    as a nameRussian 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.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.8K · 1970

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Sonia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1895–2025
Yearrecords
18957
18965
18976
18985
18997
19008
19016
19029
19036
190410
19057
19068
190714
190816
190923
191020
191123
191237
191345
191457
191561
191666
191779
1918104
191996
192076
192179
192279
192386
192497
1925108
1926134
1927218
1928184
1929169
1930166
1931164
1932198
1933212
1934236
1935226
1936251
1937346
1938429
1939282
1940299
1941237
1942249
1943262
1944202
1945233
1946223
1947280
1948273
1949313
1950333
1951396
1952442
1953438
1954537
1955591
1956625
1957747
1958839
1959917
1960951
1961983
19621,027
19631,169
19641,220
19651,254
19661,529
19671,495
19681,566
19691,751
19701,767
19711,693
19721,612
19731,600
19741,577
19751,491
19761,554
19771,370
19781,265
19791,276
19801,252
19811,129
19821,048
1983959
1984928
1985889
1986858
1987826
1988784
1989859
1990868
1991852
1992812
1993804
1994711
1995711
1996637
1997647
1998635
1999576
2000532
2001542
2002520
2003498
2004516
2005489
2006481
2007460
2008423
2009425
2010392
2011351
2012328
2013298
2014283
2015246
2016264
2017267
2018240
2019217
2020214
2021191
2022211
2023183
2024169
2025171

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 131 years between 1895–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Sonia Delaunay-Terk, b. 1885Sonia Orwell, b. 1918Sonia Rykiel, b. 1930Sonia Gandhi, b. 1946Sonia Braga, b. 1950Sonia Sotomayor, b. 1954Viktor Lazlo, b. 1960Sonya Walger, b. 1974Sonia Rolland, b. 1981Sonia Ben Ammar, b. 1999

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 130 sources across 73 countries.

Official registers attesting Sonia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—355K#126
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022324K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—323K#84
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020114K#494
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—98K#101
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—98K#50
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202484K#907
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202436K#49
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13K#175
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202613K#175
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—10K#54
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.5K#923

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,796 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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