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Baby name
Sonia
Girl
Origin of the name
Sonia comes from the Russian Sonya, a pet form of Sofia, from the Greek sophia, “wisdom.”
Classic name
66,747births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 186rank at its peak, in 1970
Where babies named Sonia are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Sonia is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Sonia is most common in California (2.4 times), Arizona (1.9) and New York (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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