Sofiane

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sofiane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic سفيان (sufyān).

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 588(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈73,000 people, est.

Sources
303 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 588 (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Arabic سفيان (sufyān).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sofiane 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.

Where Sofiane is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#63≈73,000 est.≈1 in 588listedSofiane67
FR France#283≈33,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K25KSofiane303
MA Morocco—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 12KlistedSofiane37
TN Tunisia#739≈1,600 est.≈1 in 7.6K1.6KSofiane36
CN China—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 969K—Sofiane5
BE Belgium—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 11K2Sofiane60
ES Spain—7131 in 70K713Sofiane27

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sofiane is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Śöfïaņę

  • Khmer given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Algeria, Romania, Tunisia

    Also written Sofîane, Sofiàne

  • Italian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Algeria, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Sôfîânê, Söfïänë, Sofiàne, Sőfîåñè, SoFiàné

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Šõfïãnë, Sõfîānè

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Sufyan al-Thawri, b. 716Sofian Khammes, b. 1984Sofiane, b. 1986Soso Maness, b. 1987Sofiane Feghouli, b. 1989Sofiane Hanni, b. 1990Sofiane Bendebka, b. 1992Sofiane Boufal, b. 1993Sofiane Oumiha, b. 1994Sofiane Diop, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Sofiane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199115—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#137,439

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Sofiane mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic سفيان (sufyān). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Sofiane a male or female name?
Sofiane is a male 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 Sofiane have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Sofiane in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sofiane.
How common is the name Sofiane?
In Spain, the national register counted 713 people named Sofiane, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
How common is Sofiane compared with other names?
In Algeria, Sofiane is the 63rd most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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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, “Sofiane” — the 63rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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