Sofa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sofa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sofa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MDMoldova1 in 306K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
136 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sofa is read(measured from records)
Sofa is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofa in Spanish.
- Indonesian19%
sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic10.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofa in Arabic.
- Russian7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sofa in Russian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sofa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 129 | Sofa | 59 |
| MD Moldova | 11 | 1 in 306K | 11 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Sofa | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Sofa | 21 |
136 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sofa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, sofa, couch
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, sofa, couch (upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, that accommodates at least two people)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, An area in the house where all rooms open into; hall, hallway.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jam, to suffer, to be troubled, to be distressed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sofa mean, and where does it come from?
- sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sofa?
- A machine transcription gives /sofa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Sofa a male or female name?
- Sofa 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.
- In which country does Sofa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 136 people named Sofa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sofa.
- Where is Sofa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sofa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 306 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sofa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136 people named Sofa in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sofa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sofaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Sofa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.