Zofia as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Zofia

What is the meaning of the name Zofia ?

The baby name Zofia is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced ZAW-fya.

Zofia is Greek, Polish in Origin.

Zofia is the Polish vernacular form of Sophia; the earliest recoverable form is Greek Sophía, ultimately the common noun sophía, wisdom. Its root is sophós, wise or skilled, with -ia forming an abstract feminine noun. In Christian Greek and Latin, Sophia functioned both as a personified virtue and as a woman’s name; Polish reshaped the spelling and pronunciation to Zofia, pronounced /ˈzɔ.fja/.

The name is especially associated with Poland, where Zosia is the familiar diminutive and Zofka a colloquial short form. Cognate forms include Czech Žofie, Hungarian Zsófia, South Slavic Zofija, and East Slavic Sofiya or Sofiia. Polish bearers include the novelist Zofia Nałkowska and the writer and resistance figure Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Recent Polish statistics have placed Zofia among the leading girls’ names, while English-language use remains comparatively uncommon and often reflects Central or Eastern European family ties.