Given name
Sofiane
Sofiane is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sofiane through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 282 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sofiane’s family of names
Sofiane may belong to the same name family as SOFIANNE. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sofiane
- Sofiane FeghouliAlgerian and French footballerborn 1989
- Sofiane BoufalMoroccan and French footballerborn 1993
- Sufyan al-ThawriIslamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)
- Sofiane HanniAlgerian and French footballerborn 1990
- Sofiane OumihaFrench boxerborn 1994
- Sofiane DiopMoroccan footballer (born 2000)
- Sofian ChahedGerman-Tunisian association football player (born 1983)
- Sofiane Bendebkaassociation football playerborn 1992
- Sofiane AlakouchMoroccan and French footballerborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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