Sonia
Sonia is a female, as well as rarely a male given name .
Origin and meaning
Sonia is the Italian , Spanish and French form of the feminine given name Sonja .
The first name also occurs in the Indian region, where it means something like golden.
Name bearers
- Sonia Abián (* 1966), Argentine artist
- Sonia Alomis (1896–1976), Polish-American stage actress
- Sônia Braga (born 1950), Brazilian actress
- Sonia Darrin (1924-2020), American actress
- Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885–1979), Russian-French painter and designer
- Sonia Evans, Sonia (singer) (born 1971), British pop singer
- Sonia Farke (* 1969), German actress
- Sonia Gandhi (* 1946), Indian politician
- Sonia Gegenhuber (* 1970), Australian soccer player
- Sonia Grandjean (* 1979), Swiss model and Miss Switzerland (1998)
- Sonia Lannaman , after marrying Garmston (* 1956), British athlete
- Sonia Liebing (* 1989), German pop singer
- Sonia Seymour Mikich (* 1951), German journalist
- Sonia Olschanezky (1923–1944), British secret service agent during the Second World War
- Sonia O'Sullivan (* 1969), Irish athlete and Olympian
- Solange Pierre (1963–2011), Dominican women's rights activist and human rights activist
- Sonia Rossi (* 1982), Italian-born writer who writes in German
- Sonia Rykiel (1930–2016), French fashion designer
- Sonia Sotomayor (* 1954), American lawyer, since 2009 judge at the Supreme Court of the United States
- Sonia Todd (born 1959), Australian actress
- Sonia Zepeda (* 1981), Salvadoran chess player
See also
- Sonia Meilland (Rose) , a salmon pink blooming hybrid tea rose
- Sonia Point , headland on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula