Zofia
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zofia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie.
- 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 ●
- #13 ●
- 9 ●
- Sources
- 489 ●
- 1 in 106 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
22M records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
12 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●
a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #17 | 15,109,669 | 3.3M rec. | — | #2 | Валентина | 184 |
| UA Ukraine | #11 | 7,630,086 | 7.6M rec. | — | listed | Валентина | 85 |
| AR Argentina | #22 | 4,025,530 | 1.8M rec. | — | 75K | Sofia | 162 |
| MX Mexico | #60 | 950,721 | 584K rec. | — | 1.6K | Sofia | 228 |
| GR Greece | #11 | 720,387 | 9.9K rec. | — | 230K | Sofia | 157 |
| PE Peru | #40 | 641,673 | 456K rec. | — | #6 | Sonia | 92 |
| CL Chile | #18 | 631,451 | 52K rec. | — | 2.3K | Valentina | 156 |
| BD Bangladesh | #50 | 481,603 | 784 rec. | — | — | Sonia | 39 |
| IN India | #928 | 407,101 | 249K rec. | — | 315 | Soniya | 167 |
| VE Venezuela | #52 | 406,751 | 182K rec. | — | 2.8K | Sonia | 99 |
| CO Colombia | #18 | 401,325 | 151K rec. | — | 602 | Valentina | 174 |
| IT Italy | #9 | 398,585 | 196K rec. | — | 4.6K | Sofia | 224 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish2M98%
- English18K1%
- French3.5K1%
- Spanish3.3K1%
- German2.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,965,905 | 98% |
| English | 18,394 | 1% |
| French | 3,547 | 1% |
| Spanish | 3,258 | 1% |
| German | 2,271 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1914 | 7 |
| 1915 | 9 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1917 | 9 |
| 1918 | 12 |
| 1919 | 7 |
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 50 |
| 2006 | 67 |
| 2007 | 62 |
| 2008 | 75 |
| 2009 | 81 |
| 2010 | 86 |
| 2011 | 102 |
| 2012 | 95 |
| 2013 | 98 |
| 2014 | 85 |
| 2015 | 63 |
| 2016 | 88 |
| 2017 | 67 |
| 2018 | 80 |
| 2019 | 76 |
| 2020 | 88 |
| 2021 | 84 |
| 2022 | 88 |
| 2023 | 77 |
| 2024 | 65 |
| 2025 | 86 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 62 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 469 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zofia?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Zofia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zofia have the most bearers?
- Zofia is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валентина.
- How common is Zofia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zofia is the 17th most common given name of 418,751 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.
- What does the name Zofia mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zofia” — the 17th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.