Sofie

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Sofia [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Sophia

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Sofieson Iceland

Female

Sofiedóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sofie
Genitive: Sofies
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sofie
Genitive: Sofien
Partitive: Sofieta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sofie
Accusative: Sofie
Dative: Sofie
Genitive: Sofie
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sofie
Genitive: Sofies
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sofie
Genitive: Sofies

Name Days

Norway Norway

29 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

15 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sofies verden (1991, English: Sophie's World), novel written by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
13124 30630 13120 30626 4 4
Denmark Denmark[8]
19091
n.a.
19089
n.a.
2
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
2423
n.a.
2423 0 0
Greenland Greenland[10]
291 1413
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
9 20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
8999
n.a.
8999
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sofie (f) Sources: [7][8][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sofie (f) Sources: [13]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sofie (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Sofie (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Sofie (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. details see Name Statistic tables