Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sonia is a feminine given name in the many areas of the world including the West, Russia and India. In Hindi, the name means 'golden', derived from son¿ 'gold', from Sanskrit suvar¿a (su- 'good' + var¿a 'color'). Variant spellings include Sonja and Sonya. Sonya and its variations are occasionally found as surnames in England and the American eastern seaboard. The name appears in multiple languages including English, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Hungarian, German, Scandinavian, Finnish, Slovene, Serbian, and Ukrainian. Sonia has many variant spellings and related name forms, among them Sonja, Sonje, Sonni, Sonnie, Sonnjea, and Sonya. Sonya is variant of Sophia (Greek) which has 18 variant forms: Saffi, Sofia, Sofie, Soficita, Sofka, Sofy, Sofya, Sonja, Sonnie, Sonya, Sophey, Sophie, Sophy, Zofia, Zofi, Zofia, Zofya, and Zosia.