Softa

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Turkish:/softa/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Softa is one spelling over 2 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.

• Turkish57%

  A student of theology

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English16%

  A religious student, especially in Turkey

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Softa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Greek surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece

  Also written Σοφτα, Σοφτά

26 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.

Softa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Romanian, a student at a Muslim university

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, to kick back (relax)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, software

  as a word·kaikki.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.

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Softa come from?

A religious student, especially in Turkey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Softa?

In Turkish /softa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Softa mean?

In Turkish, A student of theology

Which countries have the most people with the surname Softa?

In Croatia, the national register counted about 41 people named Softa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled softa. After it come Switzerland, Spain, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Softa most common?

Softa is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 103 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Softa?

In Croatia, the national register counted 41 people named Softa in 2021, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.