Sophia (name)

Sophia
Gender	Female
Origin
Derivation	From Greek σοφία
Meaning	Wisdom
Region of origin	Greek / French / English
Other names
Related names	Sophie

A Russian icon depicting Sophia, the Holy Wisdom.

A depiction of Saint Sophia the Martyr with her three martyred daughters Faith, Hope and Charity.

Personification of wisdom (in Greek, "Σοφία" or "Sophia") at the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey.

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)
• Safana (Turkish),(Arabic), (Persian)
• Sofana (Flemish),(Greek),(Finnish)(Swedish)
• 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
• Sophie Frank (died 1939), North Vancouver Mission woman, friend of Emily Carr
• 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

• Sofia Arvidsson (born 1984), Swedish tennis player
• Sofia Bekatorou (born 1977), Greek sailor
• Sofia Konukh (born 1980), Russian water polo player
• Sofia Mulanovich (born 1983), Peruvian surfer
• Sofia Muratova (born 1929–2006), Russian gymnast
• Sofia Papadopoulou (born 1983), Greek sailor
• Sofia Sakorafa (born 1957), Greek javelin thrower
• Sofiya Bozhanova (born 1967), Bulgarian long and triple jumper

Fictional characters

• Sophie, a minor character from the Doctor Who episode The Lodger
• 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.