Sophia (name)

Popularity

Sophia has been a popular name throughout the Western world. It is the most popular given name for girls in the US for 2012. Sophie was the fifth most popular name for girls in Australia in 2013.

Name variants

Σοφία (Greek)

Սոֆի(Armenian)

Sofia (Swedish)

سفانہ (Safana) (Persian)

صفیه (Safia) (Persian) (Urdu)

Sofana (Maltese)

Sophia (English, German, Flemish)

Sophie (French)

სოფჰიო (Sophio) (Georgian)

სოფია (Sopia), სოფო (Sopo) (Georgian)

Sophie (English)

Soffia (Icelandic, Welsh)

Sofia/Sofea (Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Flemish)

Sofía (Spanish)

Sofia (Finnish)

Sofie (Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Flemish)

Sofieke (Dutch)

София (Sofiya) (Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian)

Sofija/Софија (Slovene, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian)

Zofia (Polish)

Zsófia (Hungarian)

Sofya (Turkish)

People

Safiye Ali (1891–1952), Turkish physician

Safiye Ayla (1907–1998), Turkish singer

Saint Sophia of Rome, a martyr (d. 304 AD)

Saint Sophia the Martyr (d. 137 AD)

Sofia Coppola (born 1971), American actress and director

Sofia Essaïdi (born 1984), Franco-Moroccan singer

Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931), Russian-Tatar composer

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Russian mathematician

Sofia Milos (born 1969), Swiss actress

Sofia Rotaru (born 1947), Ukrainian singer

Sofia Samatar (born 1971), Somali-American writer

Sofia Shinas (born 1968), Canadian artist

Sofia Vassilieva (born 1992), American actress

Sofía Vergara (born 1972), Colombian model and actress

Sofija Korkutytė (1939–2000), Lithuanian rower

Sofiko Chiaureli (1937–2008), Georgian actress

Sophia Abrahão (born 1991), Brazilian actress

Sophia Aggelonitis, Canadian politician

Sophia Aliberti (born 1963), Greek actress and TV presenter

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet

Sophia Baddeley (1745–1786), English actress

Sophia Hayden Bennett (1868–1953), American architect

Sophia Brahe (1556–1643), Danish astronomer

Sophia Bush (born 1982), American actress

Sophia Collier (born 1956), American entrepreneur

Sophia Drossopoulou, Greek computer scientist

Sophia Dussek (1775–1831), Scottish composer

Sophia Eckerson (1880-1954), American botanist and microchemist

Sophia Forero (born 1967), American jewelry designer

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871), American painter

Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), English physician

Sophia Karp (1861–1904), Romanian actress

Sophia Kokosalaki (born 1972), Greek fashion designer

Sophia Laskaridou, Greek artist

Sophia Lee (1750–1824), English novelist

Sophia Leung (born 1933), Canadian politician

Sophia Loren (born 1934), Italian actress

Sophia McDougall (born 1979), British author

Sophia Michahelles (born 1976), American puppeteer

Sophia Myles (born 1980), English actress

Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok (1885–1933), Russian poet

Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (1853–1881), Russian revolutionary

Sophia Romero, American writer

Sophia D. Stoddard, American educator

Sophia Vossou (born 1961), Greek singer

Sophia Wilson (1860–?), Japanese courtesan and wife of Captain John Wilson

Sophia Yan (born 1986), American classical pianist

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), Polish writer

Zofia Nałkowska, Polish writer, the author of the Medallions

Royalty

Countess Sophia Ignatyeva (1850–1944), Russian noble

Infanta Sofía of Spain (born 2007), Spanish princess

Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736–1798), Duchess of Württemberg

Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840), Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719–1765), daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773–1844), British princess

Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777–1848), British princess

Queen Sofía of Spain (born 1938), Queen consort of Spain

Safiye Sultan (1550–1605), Queen consort of the Ottoman Empire, spouse of sultan Murad III

Sofia of Bavaria Wittelsbach (1376–1425), Queen of Bohemia

Sophia Alekseyevna (1657–1704), Russian regent

Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666–1726), Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of George I of Great Britain

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687–1757), Queen consort of Prussia, daughter of George I of Great Britain

Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636–1689), German noblewoman

Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758–1794), Princess and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700–1770), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway

Sophia of Hanover (1630–1714), heir to the English throne

Sophia of Nassau (1836–1913), Queen consort of Sweden and Norway

Sophia of Prussia (1870–1932), Queen consort of Greece

Sophia Palaiologina (1455–1503), Grand Duchess of Moscow

Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley (1796–1837), daughter of William IV

Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland (born 1984), wife of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland

Music

Sofia, bossa nova singer from the Philippines

Sofia, born Sofia Berntson, Swedish singer

Sofia Vembo, Greek singer

Sports

Sofia Arvidsson (born 1984), Swedish tennis player

Sofia Asoumanaki, Greek rower

Sofia Bekatorou (born 1977), Greek sailor and Olympic gold medalist

Sofia Iosifidou, Greek water polo player

Sophia Koggouli, Greek footballer

Sofia Konukh (born 1980), Russian water polo player

Sofía Mulanovich (born 1983), Peruvian surfer

Sofia Muratova (born 1929–2006), Russian gymnast

Sofia Papadopoulou (born 1983), Greek sailor

Sofia Polgar, Hungarian-born Israeli and Canadian chess grandmaster

Sofia Riga, Greek runner

Sofia Sakorafa (born 1957), Greek javelin thrower and politician

Sofia Tikhonova (born 1998), Russian ski jumper

Sofia Yfantidou, Greek track and field athlete

Sofiya Bozhanova (born 1967), Bulgarian long and triple jump

Sofiya Burkhanova (born 1989), Uzbekistani shot putter

Fictional characters

Princess Sofia, from the Disney Junior television series Sofia the First

Sophie Amundsen, main character from the novel Sophie's World

Sofia Constantinas, from the comic Wonder Woman

Sofia Curtis, from the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Sofia Johnson, from film The Color Purple

Sofia Dupre, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless

Sofia Lamb, from the video game BioShock 2

Sofia Petrovna, a character from the novel of the same name

Sofia Sartor from the video game Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Sofia Serrano from the film Vanilla Sky

Sofia Robbins Sloan Torres, a character from Grey's Anatomy

Sophia, playable character from Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi

Sophia Esteed, from the video game Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Sophia Forrester, from the animated TV series Last Exile

Sophia Hapgood, from the video game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Sophia Lopez, from the TV series Nip/Tuck

Sophia Peletier, from the TV series and comic books The Walking Dead

Sophia Petrillo, from the TV series The Golden Girls

Sophia Tutu, a character from the animated TV series The Raccoons

Sophia Western, main heroine of the novel The History of Tom Jones

Sophie, from the video game Tales of Graces

Sophie Neveu Saint-Clair, character in Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code

Sophie Zawistowska, the title character of the novel and movie Sophie's Choice