Entry № 9850 · Greek origin

Sofiya Sofiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-FEE-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Wisdom (Ukrainian + Saint Sophia Cathedral Kyiv UNESCO)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Ukrainian)

A name that means "wisdom (ukrainian + saint sophia cathedral kyiv unesco)".

Sofiya is from the Ukrainian Софія (Sofiya) — Ukrainian rendition of Sophia (Greek Σοφία — wisdom). Sofiya is one of the Ukrainian feminine names — central to traditional Ukrainian Orthodox Christian heritage.

Wisdom (Ukrainian + Saint Sophia Cathedral Kyiv UNESCO) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Софія
Transliteration
Sofiya
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈfiː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sofiya stands.

Sofiya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sofiyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Sophia Cathedral Kyiv
11th-c. Byzantine-Rus' Orthodox + UNESCO 1990.

Names connected to Sofiya.

The number behind Sofiya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sofiya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.