Sophie

French variation of Sophia
"wisdom"

Sophie Origin and Meaning

The name Sophie is a girl's name of French, Greek origin meaning "wisdom".

Sophie is the French form of the Greek Sophia, for which it is also commonly used as a nickname. Given Sophia's long standing among the Top 10 girl names in the US, Sophie may feel more popular than it actually is.

Sophies are scattered throughout European royal history, including Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and in modern times, Sophie, Duchess of Wessex, the wife of Britain's Prince Edward. German-born Catherine the Great was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, but changed her name to Catherine upon her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy.

Sophie is Sophia's cuter, more irreverent near-identical twin. Which do you like better? And do you see them as virtually the same name or very different? While you definitely couldn't name sisters Sophie and Sophia, you may have both on your short list and consider them distinctly separate choices. Sophie is lively and down-to-earth, while Sophia is more sophisticated and buttoned-up.

Sophie was the choice of both Eric Clapton and Luke Perry, as well as of Bette Midler for her now-grown daughter.

Sophie Zawistowska is the Polish heroine of the iconic William Styron novel Sophie's Choice, played in the 1982 film by Meryl Streep—who would play the mother of a Sophie decades later in Mamma Mia!.

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Famous People Named Sophie

  • Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt
    Zerbst,Dornburg, birth name of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
  • Sophie Amalie of Brunswick
    Lüneburg, Queen consort of Frederick III of Denmark and Norway
  • Sophie of Württemberg (born Sophia Frederika Mathilde)
    Queen consort of William III of the Netherlands
  • Sophie Helene Cecilie
    sovereign Princess consort of William of Albania
  • Sophie Blanchard (born Marie Madeleine
    Sophie Armant), French balloonist; wife of Jean,Pierre Blanchard
  • (Carin) Sophie Adlersparre
    Swedish feminist
  • Sophie Flack
    America novelist and dancer
  • Sophie Tucker (born Sonya Kalish)
    American actress and singer
  • Sophie Sumner
    English model
  • (Marie
    )Sophie Germain, French mathematician
  • Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu)
    French actress
  • Sophie Michelle Ellis
    Bextor, English singer,songwriter
  • Sophie Helen Rhys
    Jones, Countess of Wessex, wife of Britain's Prince Edward
  • Sophie
    Princess of Greece and Denmark; sister of Britain's Prince Philip
  • Sophie Kinsella
    pen name of Madeleine Sophie Wickham, English novelist
  • Sophie Lowe
    English actress
  • Sophie Zelmani
    Swedish singer,songwriter
  • Sophie Vavasseur
    Irish actress
  • (Marie
    )Sophie Nelisse, Canadian actress
  • Sophie Nyweide
    American actress
  • Sophie Charlene Akland Monk
    Australian singer of group Bardot
  • Sophie McShera
    British actress
  • Sophie Irene Loeb
    American journalist and activist
  • Sophie Okonedo
    British actress
  • Sophie Hannah
    English poet and novelist
  • Sopho "Sophie" Shevardnadze
    Russian journalist; granddaughter of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Sophie Tamiko Oda
    American actress
  • Sophie Auster
    American singer,songwriter
  • Sophie Dahl
    English model, novelist, granddaughter of novelist Roald Dahl; inspiration for Sophie in "The BFG"
  • Sophie Quinton
    French actress
  • Sophie Lara Winkleman
    English actress
  • Sophie Wu
    British actress
  • Sophie Dee
    Welsh actress
  • Sophie Ward
    English actress; daughter of actor Simon Ward
  • Sophie Ballantine Hawkins
    American singer,songwriter
  • Sophia "Sophie" Choudry
    British actress, singer and VJ
  • Sophie Evans
    Welsh singer and actress
  • Sophie Grégoire
    Canadian TV host; wife of politician Justin Trudeau
  • Sophie Gengembre Anderson
    French,British painter
  • Sophie Delila
    French singer,songwriter
  • Sophie Marguerite Daguin
    French ballerina
  • Hester Sophia Frances "Sophie" Grigson
    English cookbook writer
  • Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    German anti,Nazi revolutionary
  • Sophie Calle
    French writer and photographer
  • Sophie Braslau
    American operatic contralto
  • Sophie Thibault
    Canadian TV journalist
  • Sophie Aldred
    English actress
  • Sophie Louise Anderton
    English model
  • Sophie Antonie Luise Schröder
    German actress
  • Sophie Blake
    English TV presenter
  • Sophie Treadwell
    American playwright and journalist
  • Sophie Turner
    Australian model
  • Sophie Belinda Turner
    English actress
  • Sophie Lawrence
    English actress
  • Sophie Thompson
    English actress; sister of actress Emma Thompson
  • Sophie Lee
    Australian actress
  • (Maria) Sophie von La Roche
    German novelist
  • Sophie Kennedy Clark
    Scottish actress
  • Sophie Politt
    Cohen, American author
  • Sophie Rundle
    English actress
  • Sophie Rostopchine
    Countess of Ségur, French children's novelist
  • Sophie Price
    English glamour model; sister of model Katie Price
  • Sophie Cookson
    English actress
  • Sophie Muller
    American music video director
  • Sophie Clarke
    American reality TV personality of "Survivor"
  • Sophie Wilson (born Roger Wilson)
    English computer scientist
  • Sophie Howard
    English model
  • Sophie Kasaei
    British Reality TV personality of "Geordie Shore"
  • Sophie Briard
    Auconie, French MEP
  • Sophie Joissains
    French Senator
  • Sophia Helena "Sophie" in 't Veld
    Dutch MEP
  • Sophie Jane Raworth
    English broadcast journalist
  • Sophia Theresa "Sophie" Pemberton
    Canadian painter
  • (Maria) Sophie Weber
    Austrian singer; sister,in,law of composer W.A. Mozart
  • Sophie
    Princess of Sweden (Sofia Vilhelmina Katarina Maria Lovisa Charlotta Anna), Grand Duchess of Baden
  • Sophie Caroline Marie
    Princess of Brunswick,Wolfenbüttel, Margravine of Brandenburg,Bayreuth
  • Sophie Marie Franziska Antonia Ignatia Alberta
    Princess of Hohenberg, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  • Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine
    Princess of Bavaria; Archduchess Franz Karl of Austria; twin of sister Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine
  • Sophie Augustine Ida Karoline Pauline Agnes Elisabeth Ernestine
    Princess of Saxe,Weimar,Eisenach
  • Sophie Antoinette
    Princess of Brunswick,Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe,Coburg,Saalfeld; great,grandmother of Queen Victoria
  • Sophie
    Princess of the Netherlands (Wilhelmine Marie Sophie Louise); daughter of William II; one,time Dutch heir to the throne
  • Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine
    Princess of Luxembourg; daughter of Grand Duke William IV
  • Sophie Hunter
    English theatre director; wife of Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Sophie Diana Schmidt
    Canadian soccer player
  • Sophie Crumb (b. 1981)
    daughter of comics artists R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky
  • Sophie von Haselberg (b. 1986)
    American actress; daughter of Bette Midler
  • Sophie Simmons (b. 1992)
    daughter of KISS bassist Gene Simmons
  • Sophie Cathérine Napoléon (b. 1992)
    daughter of Charles, Prince Napoléon, heir to the Imperial House of France
  • Sophie Shalhoub (b. 1993)
    daughter of actor Tony Shalhoub
  • Sophie Hoblit (b. 1995)
    daughter of actress/model Debrah Farentino and director Gregory Hoblit
  • Sophie al
    Abdul (b. 1996), daughter of singer Diana Haddad and Suhail al,Abdul
  • Sophie Michaels (b. 2001)
    daughter of SNL creator Lorne Michaels
  • Sophie Ostroy (b. 2003)
    daughter of actress Adrienne Shelly and Andy Ostroy
  • Sophie Rubin (b. 2004)
    daughter of actress Julia Ormond and Jon Rubin
  • Sophie Magnelli (b. 2006)
    daughter of tennis player Sandrine Testud and coach Vittorio Magnelli
  • Sophie Matthew (b. 2009)
    daughter of golfer Catriona Matthew
  • Sophie Neville (b. 2010)
    daughter of footballer and coach Gary Neville
  • Sophie White (b. 2014)
    daughter of model and Miss Ireland 1998 Andrea Roche and Rob White
  • Sophie Bevington (b. 2014)
    daughter of rugby union player Ryan Bevington
  • Sophie Lancaster (b. 1986)
    20 year old British woman who was beaten to death for being a goth in 2007

Sophie in Pop Culture

  • Sophie Sheridan
    character in novel "The One Apart" by author Justine Avery
  • Sophie Zawistowska
    main character in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice"
  • Sophia "Sophie" Collins Ashdown Lightwood
    character in the Infernal Devices trilogy
  • Sophie Fatale
    character in the Kill Bill film series
  • Sophie Abramowitz
    character in the "Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls" series
  • Sophie Hatter
    character in 1986 fantasy book, and 2004 anime film "Howl's Moving Castle"
  • Sophie Devereaux
    character on TV's "Leverage"
  • Sophie Martinez
    character on TV's "Cory in the House"
  • Sophie Maes
    character in movie "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People "
  • Sophie
    main character in Roald Dahl's "The BFG"
  • Sophie Bergmann
    character in video game "Fullmetal Alchemist 3: Kami o Tsugu Shōjo"
  • Sophie Burton
    character on British soap "Hollyoaks"
  • Sophie Kowalsky
    main character in movie "Love Me If You Dare"
  • Sophie Neveu
    character in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"
  • Sophie Newman
    main character in Michael Scott's "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel"
  • Sophie Simpson
    character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
  • Sophie Fairfax
    character in Heather Vogel Frederick's Mother,Daughter Book Club series
  • Sophia "Sophie" Mercer
    main character in Hex Hall series by Rachel Hawkins
  • Sophie Oseransky
    character in movie "The Whole Nine Yards"
  • Sophie Sheridan
    character in musical "Mamma Mia"
  • Sophie Webster
    character on British soap "Coronation Street"
  • Sophie King
    character in movie "Cyberbully"
  • Sophie Parker
    main character on Canadian TV series "Sophie"
  • Sophie
    Colonel Potter's horse on M*A*S*H
  • Sophie Elizabeth Foster
    Main Character in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger
  • Sophie
    from the School for Good and Evil book series
  • Sophie Amundsen
    main character in "Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy" by Jostein Gaarder
  • Sophie
    character in "Lights Out" by David F. Sandberg
  • Sophie
    character in video game Tales of Graces
  • Sophie Neuenmuller
    character in Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book
  • Sophie
    character in the graphic novel series 'Saga'
  • Sophie Krustofsky
    Krusty the Clown's daughter on TV's "The Simpsons"
  • Sophie Benjamin
    character on TV's "H2O: Just Add Water"
  • Sophie
    character in webcomic "The Rainstorm"
  • "Taken: The Search for Sophie Parker
    " TV movie
  • "Sophie Roux"
    song by the band Lady Danville
  • Sophie Cardona
    character on Netflix's "Greenhouse Academy"
  • Sophie Battersea Greenaway
    character in Joan Aiken's "Wolves Chronicles" series
  • Sophia "Sophie" Williams Aubrey
    wife of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey,Maturin" series

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