![]() ![]() South and East Slavic and Baltic languages have Sofija (Софија), Sofiya (София) and Sofya (Софья). Modern Spanish uses the acute diacritic, Sofía. The spelling Soffia is Icelandic and Welsh. Greek Σοφία was adopted without significant phonological changes into numerous languages,Īnd Sofia (Romance languages, and thence also to Germanic languages and Finnish, etc.). Sophia and variants of the name remain among the most currently popularly given names for girls in countries across Europe as well as countries in North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and others. Suggested influences for this trend include Sofía Vergara and Sofia Coppola (popular from the late 1990s) and Sofia Hellqvist (popular from the 2000s). Sophia was comparatively popular in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century its use declined in the 1920s to 1950s it became again moderately popular during the 1960s to 1980s.ĭuring the 1990s to the 2010s, the popularity of the name rose dramatically in many countries throughout the western world. It was repeatedly popularised among the wider population, by the name of a character in the novel Tom Jones (1794) by Henry Fielding, in The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith, and in the 1960s by Italian actress Sophia Loren (b. It was popularized in Britain by the German House of Hanover in the 18th century. ![]() The name was comparatively common in continental Europe in the medieval and early modern period. ![]() Both associations contributed to the usage of the name. Sophia was known as the personification of wisdom by early Christians and Saint Sophia is also an early Christian martyr. It became very popular in the West beginning in the later 1990s and became one of the most popularly given girls' names in the Western world in the first decades of the 21st century. It is a common female name in the Eastern Orthodox countries. The given name is first recorded in the beginning of the 4th century. Other forms include Sophie, Sophy, and Sofie. Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía, "Wisdom". ![]()
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