Sofia is used as a family name or surname in Bulgaria. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Sofia
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Bulgaria
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Sofia

How popular is Sofia?

Sofia is common in Bulgaria.

Sofia is ranked 10981 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Sofia bearers increased by 5.711207 per cent in 2010 US census to 981 since 2000, the surname slipped by 179 spots and ranked at 25255. The last name was found in around 3 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 84.61 89.98
Hispanic or Latino 11.42 6.14
Others 1.53 2.05
Black 1.12 0.75
Sofia is quite popular family name mostly used in Indonesia while Portugal is ahead in terms of density. Around 48884 people have been found who wears Sofia as their family name. Sofia is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
33,253 New Zealand9
82,942 Zimbabwe8
8,411 Costa Rica4
27,602 Nigeria4
16,605 Austria3
10,329 Pakistan3
4,669 Albania3
35,789 Turkey3
2,672 Mozambique3
5,443 Dominican Republic2
18,035 Egypt2
5,936 Bahrain2
7,574 Bangladesh2
37,372 Georgia2
15,591 Burkina Faso2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
12,172 Ghana2
13,552 Qatar2
9,185 Hong Kong2
2,835 Libya2
4,367 Afghanistan2
1,256 Myanmar2
18,718 Thailand2
34,681 Norway2
6,900 Oman2
147,165 Czech Republic2
1,542 Andorra1
9,116 Nicaragua1
1,970 Grenada1
13,606 Senegal1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
38,063 Mauritania1
846 American Samoa1
107,212 South Africa1
6,033 Benin1
29,046 Japan1
5,872 Namibia1
31,207 Ireland1
8,859 Iraq1
16,283 Lithuania1
29,595 Iran1
3,586 Honduras1
6,149 Ethiopia1
7,895 South Korea1
11,486 Estonia1
3,993 El Salvador1
510 East Timor1
7,314 Bolivia1
2,877 Cuba1
2,505 Congo1
7,292 Vietnam1
799 British Virgin Islands1
12,270 Lebanon1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
2,337 Cyprus43
49,393 Netherlands35
29,383 United Arab Emirates31
20,233 Denmark25
11,685 Singapore24
1,021 Malta21
3,830 Luxembourg20
3,922 China11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
34,872 Canada94
29,679 Spain84
12,775 Israel82
2,992 Puerto Rico68
Countries with hundreds of Sofia:
10,487 France869
3,589 Romania668
3,029 Venezuela652
50,093 India607
5,126 Peru499
27,752 Philippines451
23,918 Germany437
3,073 Guatemala369
3,720 Switzerland315
1,121 Taiwan290
3,667 Ecuador276
4,219 Chile243
6,220 Tunisia198
202 Cape Verde190
25,613 England188
16,815 Australia156
3,705 Uruguay134
2,495 Panama131
7,185 Sweden131
6,495 Jordan123
15,958 Belgium111
6,877 Finland109
Countries with thousands of Sofia:
2,109 Indonesia7,294
261 Portugal5,864
3,302 Brazil4,341
602 Angola3,601
2,795 Italy3,505
1,511 Morocco3,155
2,332 Argentina2,075
1,443 Malaysia2,049
1,743 Colombia2,044
4,146 Mexico1,597
20,974 United States1,522
867 Greece1,474
5,127 Algeria1,339
748 Bulgaria1,238
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Amalia Sofia was 8 years old when she migrated to St.Thomas on July 19, 1900. She lived in Marigliano, Italy where she worked as farmer and took Ems from Genoa. Angela Sofia (6), Angelo Sofia (48) Laborer, Angelo Sofia, aged 57, Antonia Sofia, aged 44, Antonia Sofia, aged 44, Antonio Sofia, Antonio Sofia, aged 18, Antonio Sofia, aged 29, and 59 other Sofia around 38.98% of whom were laborer while others worked as housewife and peasant, seamstress, sailor, country man migrated to US from Naples, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Genoa, Gibraltar, Naples & Palermo and Genoa & Naples.

Sofia Namesakes

  • Ana Sofía Sánchez, Tennis Player
  • Alekos Sofianidis, Soccer player
  • Alondra Sofía Valdés, Actor
  • Apostolos Sofianos, Actor
  • Aranza Sofia Aquinin Gibelli, Viviana Gibelli's daughter
  • Ana Sofía Sánchez, Tennis Player
  • Ayla Sofia Johnson, Adam Johnson's daughter
  • Ahmad Shahrul Azhar Sofian, Soccer player
  • Siti Azirah Sofia, Harun Salim Bachik's daughter
  • Raja Yong Sofia, Azlan Shah of Perak's daughter

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