Name meaning and origin

Sophia

Greek: Wisdom, skill, knowledge

Where the name comes from

  • Greek
    Wisdom, skill, knowledge
    σοφία (sophia)

Sophia across traditions

  • Greek Philosophy. Personification of wisdom, philosophia (love of wisdom)
  • Gnostic. Divine feminine wisdom, Aeon Sophia
  • Christian. Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), Christ as Wisdom
  • Jewish. Chokmah (Wisdom) personified in Proverbs

Forms in other languages

Sophie, Sofia, Zofia, Sofie

Sophia in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

226
Hebrew Standard
1
Hebrew Ordinal
68
English Simple
408
English Sumerian
94
English Reverse
369
Greek Isopsephy
7
Chaldean
5
Pythagorean

Not Sophia? Look up your own name

The Innerverse reads any name: its language of origin, its roots, who carried it, and how nine letter-number traditions count it.

More Greek names