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17th September 2019
09:00am BST

According to Live Science, baby name suggestion website babynamewizard.com are the folks behind the research on this. Expert in the field Laura Wattenberg, who compiled the information, discovered Sofia/Sophia came top of the female baby name lists in nine of the countries she analysed - including Italy, Russia and Mexico. It comes in second or third place in a further 20 regions.
As to why this moniker is so incredibly popular, Wattenberg thinks its meaning, "wisdom", could be one of the reasons so many parents choose it for their baby girl. Another reason is that you can pronounce it in a range of languages. "It just blew me away that so many different languages and cultures would arrive at the same sound at the same time," the baby name expert told Live Science.
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