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SONIA

SONIA is the acronym of Sterling Overnight Index Average.

Proper noun capitalized: Sonia

Sonia

  1. A female given name from Russian (the usual UK spelling of the name which is spelled Sonya in the US).
    • Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024

Origin of SONIA

Borrowed from Russian Со́ня (Sónja), pet form of Софи́я (Sofíja, “Sophia”).

Questions about SONIA

What does SONIA mean?
SONIA means a female given name from Russian (the usual UK spelling of the name which is spelled Sonya in the US).
What is SONIA the acronym of?
SONIA is the acronym of Sterling Overnight Index Average.
What part of speech is SONIA?
SONIA is a proper noun.

Words near SONIA in the dictionary

  1. sonhead
  2. sonheads
  3. sonhood
  4. sonhoods
  5. Soni
  6. SONIA
  7. Soniachna
  8. Sonian
  9. Sonian Forest
  10. sonic
  11. Sonic 2sday

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SONIA (page history and authors); Sonia (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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