Gender Feminine
Scripts Pron. /ˈso.njə/ (Russian) /ˈsoʊn.jə/ (English) /ˈsɔːn.jə/ (English) [key ·simplify]
Meaning & History
Russian diminutive of Sophia. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869, English translation 1886).
Related Names
VariantSonia (English)
Other Languages & CulturesSophia (Ancient Greek) Sofi, Sofya (Armenian) Sofia, Sofiya (Bulgarian) Sofia, Sònia (Catalan) Sofija, Sonja (Croatian) Sofie, Soňa, Žofie (Czech) Sofia, Sofie, Sonja, Vivi (Danish) Sofia, Sonja, Sophia, Sophie, Fieke, Sofie, Soof (Dutch) Sofia, Viivi (Estonian) Sofia, Sohvi, Sonja, Viivi (Finnish) Sophie (French) Sofía (Galician) Sopia, Sopio (Georgian) Sofia, Sonja, Sophia, Sophie, Sofie, Sonje (German) Sofia, Sophia (Greek) Szofi, Szonja, Zsófia, Szófia, Zsófika, Zsóka (Hungarian) Soffía, Sonja (Icelandic) Sofia, Sonia (Italian) Sofija (Latvian) Zofija, Sofija (Lithuanian) Sofija, Sonja (Macedonian) Sofia, Sofie, Sonja, Vivi (Norwegian) Sonia, Zofia, Zosia (Polish) Sofia, Sonia (Portuguese) Sofia, Sonia (Romanian) Sofija, Sonja (Serbian) Sofia, Soňa, Žofia (Slovak) Sofija, Sonja, Zofija (Slovene) Sofía, Sonia, Sofi (Spanish) Sofia, Sofie, Sonja, Sofi, Vivi (Swedish) Sofia, Sofiia, Sofiya (Ukrainian)
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Entry updated November 16, 2019