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Zofia

One of the thirty most-given girls' names in Poland, and still handed out freely enough that most people know several. Slavic at root, it carries the sense of "wisdom".

Zofia Pronunciation

Zofia is pronounced ZOF-yah (/ˈzɔfja/).

Alive in 2025
364,884
Newborns 2025
4,415
National rank
#28
Next name day
15 May
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What Zofia means

Where Zofia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Zofia is the Polish form of a name that means wisdom. The word behind it is the Greek sophia, and Slavic speakers reshaped it to fit Polish tongues. Zofia. The diminutive Zosia does the daily work, the name a grandmother calls across a room, while older records keep the variant Zofija and the west spells it Sofie.

Poland remembers real women by the name. Zofia Holszańska, known as Sonka, became queen as the last wife of Władysław Jagiełło in 1422, and her sons founded a line of kings. Centuries later Mickiewicz gave the young Zosia of Pan Tadeusz the same name in its softer form.

Polish weather lore even keeps a Zośka. Farmers call the fifteenth of May zimna Zośka, the cold Zośka, a late frost named after the imieniny. The diminutive does daily duty, Zosia in the family and Zofia on the certificate, and the old sense holds under both: wisdom, the sophia that Slavic speech reshaped.

When Zofia celebrates name day

Zofia appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 15 May.

Next name day
15 May
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 202 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Zofia

1 in 62 women in Poland is named Zofia. 364,884 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #28 among female names.

People with the name Zofia 2019 → 2025
364,884 −22,969 since 2019
2020 387,169 −684
2021 382,910 −4,259
2022 377,324 −5,586
2023 373,092 −4,232
2024 369,226 −3,866
2025 364,884 −4,342

Zofia's popularity over time

4,415 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #7 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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4,415 newborns with the name Zofia in 2025
national rank #7 that year

Where parents choose Zofia

Zofia is given fairly evenly across Poland, with no strong regional preference. It leans slightly toward Warmian-Masurian (18% above the national average) and is least common in Subcarpathian (14% below).

Chosen most
  • Warmian-Masurian
    +18%
    1 in 45 babies
  • Masovian
    +8%
    1 in 49 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +7%
    1 in 49 babies
Chosen least
  • Subcarpathian
    −14%
    1 in 62 babies
  • Silesian
    −9%
    1 in 59 babies
  • Lublin
    −7%
    1 in 57 babies

Zofia as a middle name

Zofia is a first name for 364,884 women in Poland and a middle name for another 265,565, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 11th, between Agnieszka (275,512) and Krystyna (219,755).

As a first name
364,884
As a middle name
265,565
first name 58% middle name 42%
Middle-name ranking women

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