Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Sonya

SONYA

Gender: Feminine

Other Scripts: Соня (Russian)

Pronounced: SON-yə (English), SAWN-yə (English) [key]

Russian diminutive of SOPHIA. This is the name of a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' (1869, English translation 1886).