Entry № 9905 · Russian origin

Sonya Sonya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Wisdom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "wisdom".

Sonya peaked at #487 in the U.S. in 2001. The British actress Sonya Cassidy is a contemporary bearer.

Wisdom. The Russian Sofia.

The name in its native script.

Соня
Transliteration
Sonya
Pronunciation
/ ˈsoʊn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sonya stands.

Sonya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sonyas before her.

Real people
Sonya Tolstaya
Wife of Leo Tolstoy.
1844 – 1919
In fiction
Sonya Marmeladov
Heroine of Crime and Punishment.
1866 novel

Names connected to Sonya.

The number behind Sonya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sonya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.