Where is Sonya from?

My guess is...

Bulgaria

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19%

Ireland

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8%

Russian Federation

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8%

I'm 98% certain Sonya is Female.

According to a dataset of 4879, the average Sonya is around 53 years old.

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Learn about the name Sonya

Meaning of the name Sonya

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

Characteristics of the name Sonya

OriginsEnglish, Russian
PronouncedSO-nyə(Russian)
GenderFeminine
Traitsnatural, refined, serious, simple, classic, upper class, strange, nerdy, wholesome

How do we know this about Sonya

(and is it secret spies?)

We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
NameGuessr guesses a person's nationality, age, and gender based on their name. We also try to give insightful info around the name's origin, name meaning, and name pronounciation.