Sonia (name)


Sonia is a feminine given name in many areas of the world including the West, Russia, Iran, and South Asia. Sonia and its variant spellings Sonja and Sonya are used in many countries, including Russia, as a diminutive for Sofiya.
The name was popularised in the English-speaking world by characters in the novels Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, and later by a 1917 bestselling novel, Sonia: Between Two Worlds, by Stephen McKenna.
Scandinavian countries spell the name with the letter j: Sonja, while many English speaking countries spell it with i or y: Sonia or Sonya.
Although the most common English pronunciation is, and are also possible.

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