Sofia
/ˈsəʊfi.ə/US/ˈsoʊfiə/
Sofia proper noun: a female given name, variant of Sophia.
Proper noun (1)
Sofia
- A female given name, variant of Sophia.
- Every year in California thousands of parents choose names such as José, Andrés and Sofía for their children, often honoring the memory of a deceased grandmother, aunt or sibling. On the state-issued birth certificates, though, those names will be spelled incorrectly.2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025
- The capital city of Bulgaria.
- The Bulgarian government.
Proper noun (2)
Sofia
- A river in northwestern Madagascar.
- A region of Madagascar around the river.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: SOFIA
SOFIA
- Acronym of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a telescope atop a Boeing 747SP aircraft with an effective diameter of 2.5 meters at altitudes up to 13.7 kilometers.
- Acronym of Surround Optical Fiber Immunoassay.
Sofia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Sofia in Hindi
- Bulgarian capital
- सोफ़िया sofiyā
Sofia in Tamil
- Bulgarian capital
- ஸோபியா sōpiyā
Sofia in Marathi
- Bulgarian capital
- सोफिया sophiyā
Sofia in Urdu
- Bulgarian capital
- صوفیہ sofiyā
More languagesFewer languages
- Sofia in Bengali
- সোফিয়া śōphiẏa
- Sofia in Pashto
- صوفيه sofīya
- Sofia in Tagalog
- Sopiya
- Sofia in Arabic
- صُوفْيَا ṣūfyā
- Sofia in Malay
- Sofia
- Sofia in Indonesian
- Sofia
- Sofia in Persian
- صوفیا Sofiyâ, صوفیه Sofiye
- Sofia in Thai
- โซเฟีย soo-fiia
- Sofia in Vietnamese
- Sách Phi Á, Xô-phi-a
- Sofia in Myanmar
- ဆိုဖီယာမြို့ hcuihpiyamrui.
Synonyms of Sofia
- Serdica
- Serdonpolis
- Triaditza
- Sredets
Forms of Sofia
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Origin of Sofia
Variant spelling of Sophia and from various other languages' own adaptations of Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía, “wisdom, especially divine wisdom”). Sometimes borrowed into English as an anglicization of an accented or closely related form, as with Spanish Sofía, Welsh Soffia, and Hungarian Zsófia. As the capital of Bulgaria, via nonstandard, though now official, romanization of Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija), from църква „Света София“ (cărkva „Sveta Sofija“), from Byzantine Greek Ναός Ἁγίας Σοφίας (Naós Hagías Sophías, “Church of Holy Wisdom”), the city's prominent 6th-century Byzantine Greek church, first attested being used as the name for the city in the 14th century and reinforced under Ottoman rule as Ottoman Turkish صوفیه (Sofya). Compare the name of the Hagia Sophia.
From Malagasy Sofia of uncertain origin. The region is named for the river.
Words formed from Sofia
Words that rhyme with Sofia
Questions about Sofia
- What does Sofia mean?
- Sofia means a female given name, variant of Sophia.
- What is Sofia in Hindi?
- Sofia in Hindi is सोफ़िया (sofiyā). See Sofia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Sofia?
- Sofia is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Sofia?
- Sofia is pronounced /ˈsoʊfiə/ (US).
Words near Sofia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Sofia (page history and authors); SOFIA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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