Sophia (name)
| Sophia |
| Gender |
Female |
| Origin |
| Derivation |
From Greek σοφία |
| Meaning |
Wisdom |
| Region of origin |
Greek / French / English |
| Other names |
| Related names |
Sophie |
Sophia is a female name derived from σοφία, the Greek word for "Wisdom." Sophie is from the French form. Sophia has been a popular name throughout the western world. The name was used to represent the personification of wisdom and is also the name of an early Christian martyr.
Name variants
- Chofa (Spanish)
- Fifi (Spanish), (French)
- Sophia (Greek), (English), (Bulgarian), (Flemish)
- Sophie (French), (English), (German), (Dutch), (Flemish)
- Sophy (English)
- Safia/ Saphia (Arabic), (Pashto), (Persian), (Urdu)
- Safiye (Turkish)
- Soffia (Icelandic), (Welsh)
- Sofia (Bulgarian), (Romanian), (Catalan), (English), (Finnish), (German), (Greek), (Italian), (Norwegian), (Swedish), (Portuguese), (Spanish), (Flemish)
- Soficita (Spanish)
- Sofie (Danish), (Dutch), (German), (Norwegian), (Swedish), (Flemish)
- Sofieke (Dutch)
- Sofiia (Ukrainian), (Russian)
- Sofija (Slovene), (Croatian), (Latvian), (Lithuanian), (Serbian)
- Sofiya (Bulgarian), (Russian), (Ukrainian)
- Sohvi (Finnish), (Estonian)
- Soňa (Czech), (Slovak)
- Soña (Spanish)
- Sonia (English), (Italian), (Portuguese), (Romanian), (Spanish), (Flemish)
- Sonja (Danish), (English), (Finnish), (German), (Norwegian), (Serbian), (Slovene), (Croatian), (Swedish), (Flemish)
- Sonje (German)
- Sonya (English), (Bulgarian), (Russian), (Spanish), (Flemish)
- Szófia (Hungarian)
- Vivi (French)1
- Zocha (Polish)
- Zofia (Polish)
- Žofia (Slovak)
- Žofie (Czech)
- Zofija (Slovene)
- Zosia, Zośka, Zosieńka (Polish)
- Zsófia (Hungarian)
- Zsófika (Hungarian)
People
- 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 Shinas (born 1968), Canadian artist
- Sofia Vergara (born 1972), Colombian model and actress
- 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 Baddeley (1745–1786), English actress
- Sophia Brahe (1556–1643), Danish astronomer
- Sophie Braslau (1892-1935), American contralto
- Sophia Bush (born 1982), American actress
- Sophia Collier (born 1956), American entrepreneur
- Sophie Dahl (born 1977), British model
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet
- Sophia Drossopoulou, Greek computer scientist
- Sophia Dussek (1775–1831), Scottish composer
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British pop-dance singer
- Sophie Evans (born 1993), British actress & singer
- Sophia Forero (born 1967), American jewelry designer
- Sophia Hayden Bennett (1868–1953), American architect
- Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912), English physician
- Sophia Karp (1861–1904), Romanian actress
- Sophia Kokosalaki (born 1972), Greek fashion designer
- Sophia Lee (1750–1824), English novelist
- Sophie Lee (born 1968), Australian film, stage and television actress
- Sophia Leung (born 1933), Canadian politician
- Sophia Loren (born 1934), Italian actress
- Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (1853–1881), Russian revolutionary
- Sophia McDougall (born 1979), British author
- Sophia Michahelles (born 1976), American puppeteer
- Sophie Monk (born 1979), Anglo-Australian singer and actress
- Sophia Myles (born 1980), English actress
- Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871), American painter
- Sophie Price (born 1989), British glamour model
- Sophie Raworth (born 1968), British newsreader
- Sophia Romero, American writer
- Sophie Scholl (1921–1943), member of White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany
- Sophia D. Stoddard, American educator
- Sophie Tucker, (13 January 1886 – 9 February 1966) Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress
- Sophia Vossou (born 1961), Greek singer
- Sophia Wilson (1860–?), Japanese courtesan and wife of Captain John Wilson
- Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok (1885–1933), Russian poet
- Sophia Yan (born 1986), American classical pianist
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), Polish writer
Royalty
- Countess Sophia Ignatyeva (1850–1944), Russian noble
- Infanta Sofía of Spain (born 2007), Spanish princess
- Princess Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840), Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg
- Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773–1844), British princess
- Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777–1848), British princess
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex (born 1965), wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- Queen Sofía of Spain (born 1938), Queen consort of Spain
- Sofia of Bavaria Wittelsbach (1376–1425), Queen of Bohemia
- Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley (1796–1837), daughter of William IV
- Sophia Alekseyevna (1657–1704), Russian regent
- Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666–1726), Duchess of Brunswick-Celle
- Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687–1757), Queen consort of Prussia
- 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
- Princess Sophie of Sweden (1771–1790)
Sports
Fictional characters
- Sophia Petrovna, a character from Petersburg
- Sofia Constantinas, from the comic Wonder Woman
- Sofia Curtis, from the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Sofia Lamb, from the video game Bioshock 2
- 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 Petrillo, from the TV series The Golden Girls
- Sophie, main character of The BFG
- Sophie, main heroine of Tales of Graces
- Sophie, main character of Mamma Mia!
- Sophie Neveu, main heroine of The Da Vinci Code
- Sophie Parker, main character of Sophie (TV series)
- Sophie Newman, main character of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
- Sophie Hatter, main character of Howl's Moving Castle
- Sophie Webster, from the soap opera Coronation Street
- Sophia Western, main heroine of The History of Tom Jones
- Sophie Amundsen, main character of Sophie's World
- Sofia Dupre Winters, a character on the America soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Sophie Zawistowska, title character of the novel (as well as film and opera) Sophie's Choice
- Sophie Devereaux, grifter in TNT's Leverage
See also
Sophie (disambiguation)
Internal links
1. Vivi is also a form of Vivienne/Vivian.