Sofiyah
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sofiyah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 123K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 577K
- NGNigeria1 in 876K
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Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | 336 | 56% |
| ID Indonesia | 77 | 13% |
| NG Nigeria | 65 | 11% |
| US United States | 34 | 6% |
| TH Thailand | 26 | 90% |
≈538 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay29750%
- English18932%
- Indonesian8214%
- Thai30103%
- Western Frisian51%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 297 | 50% |
| English | 189 | 32% |
| Indonesian | 82 | 14% |
| Thai | 30 | 103% |
| Western Frisian | 5 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 2009–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sofiyah?
- Our records include 538 bearers of Sofiyah across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Sofiyah have the most bearers?
- Sofiyah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia.
- Is Sofiyah a male or female name?
- Sofiyah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sofiyah”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.