Soniya

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Languages●

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◐

Soniya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Arabic given name2.8K records spelled Soniya4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

  Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

  Also written Şoniya

• a separate given name2.5K records spelled Soniya2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia

  Also written Soniyā

• Bulgarian given name121 records spelled Soniya13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan, United States, Russia

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

  Also written Сония, Шония, Şoniya, Soniя, Šoniя

• Uzbek given name52 records spelled Soniya2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Uzbekistan, India

  Also written Şoniya

19 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●

Soniya 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 Uzbek, second (unit of time)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Soniya Carvalhob. 1962Lead Evaluation Officer at the World Bank (1962-)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Soniya?

We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Soniya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Soniya have the most bearers?

Soniya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валентина.

How common is Soniya compared with other names?

In Russia, Soniya is the 17th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Soniya a male or female name?

Soniya 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 Soniya mean?

Recorded meaning: Wisdom,