If you were asked what you think is the most common girl's name in the world, would you say "Maria"? I also. Most of us think that this is the most popular name in the world but at present it is not so, because a study in which the names and all their variants have been analyzed according to the language has determined that The most popular girl's name is "Sofia".
Laura Wattenberg It is the name of the woman who has compared statistics from 49 countries to verify if Maria was actually the most popular name in girls. Little by little, as he analyzed the data, he realized that Sofia, in all its variants, led the ranking.
In this map you can see the position that Sofia occupies in the countries studied, in all its variants, corresponding to 22 different languages: Sofia, Sophia, Sofie, Sophie, Zsófia, etc. In 9 of them it is in the first position, and in others it does not move too far from the top positions.
And the name could be even more numerous, because Wattenberg explains that in many countries only one of the variants of the name is counted. If, for example, there is a country where Sofia is the most numerous, but there are mothers who put their daughters Sofie, there could be only the statistics of the first, but not the second.
Even so, there is a lack of data from countries as populated as Brazil, China and India and that is why he does not dare to say that it is the name of the most used girl in the world. However, given the relevance of it, and that it is also booming, as we see in the following graph of the USA, where parents put their daughters Sofia, Sophia or Sophie, it does assure that it is the most popular girl name in the world.
What do you think? Surprised? Do you know many "Sofia"?
