How do you pronounce Sophia

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Do you say

So - fee- a (emphasis on fee)
So - fy - a

or

Sophie - a (emphasis on So)

so-FEE-ya

so-fee-ya

So - fee - ya (emphasis on fee)

I have a Sophia and pronounce her name as per your first example, although my DM and my FIL prounounce it Sophie-a, despite my best attempts to get them to say it properly, which really annoys me!

Oh good

I like So-FEE-ya but not so-FY-a or SO-fee-a

So-fye-a

There's also a Sof-ee-a (like the capital of Bulgaria, in both spelling and pronunciation) at DCs school.

I too have a Sophia (spelt Sofia) but pronounced as your first example - gorgeous name!

emphasis on fee - I like the name a lot

So-fee-a

So-FEE-a

My dd is called Sophia and if anyone pronounces it So-FYE-a she wants to brain them.

So-fee-a. It's pretty. :)

The old-fashioned English pronunciation is So-fye-a. At some point the Latin pronunciation came into favour, and the same is true of Maria which used to be Ma-rye-a. (Mariah Carey has made the old prn. of Maria more familiar.) They can be pronounced either way. Certainly So-fye-a is more unusual these days, but it's just fashion.

SO FEE YA

Someone called my daughter So-FYE-a, I overheard her mutter under her breath 'I don't live in the 18th century you twat'

So fee a

Sew fee ah

I was just about to start this very thread, so I will hijack it instead (sorry bout that OP)

So if you want your daughter to be called (going to attempt phonetic spelling) so-fee-a NOT so-fi-a how should it be spelled? I think Sophia but the spelling with an F is becoming more common it seems.

If you spell it Sofia people will pronoune so-fy-a IME.

Sophia gets prounounced so-fee-ya (apart from by odd people who struggle with normal name pronounciation...)

Excellent, so a "ph" for me which is what I wanted. I thought it should be because Sophy (or Sophie) is proounced sopheee not sophiiii but these things are never that straightforward!

If DS had been a DD, would have been Zofia (Eastern European name pronounced Zoff-ya), with the nn's Zosia (Zoh-sha) and Zosiu (Zoh-shoo).

Just to confuse the issue add another dimension

s'FEE-ya

i have a daughter and her name is sophia i pronounce it So-fy-a. She believes it is a made up name!

I have a Sofia, we say So Fee A.