Names That Mean Wisdom

Names meaning wise, counsel, knowing or understanding. Greek supplies most of these directly; the Germanic ones arrive as the second half of a compound, where counsel means something closer to good judgement than to advice.

Every name here has a researched page whose stated meaning carries this sense.

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9 names, most popular first in United States

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Sophia Sophia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," taken directly from the Greek word sophía.
Greek #5 in US
Sofia Sofia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," the Romance- and Slavic-language spelling of Sophia.
Greek #9 in US
Sophie Sophie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," the French form of Sophia.
Greek #55 in US
Ramona Ramona means protecting counsel, and a novel made it — Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona in 1884 to expose the treatment of Native Californians, and readers took the romance and ignored the argument.
Spanish #733 in US
Jada Jada appears once in the Hebrew Bible as a man's name, in a genealogy in Chronicles — the modern American name is effectively a separate creation that happens to match it.
American #1,201 in US
Sonia Sonia is not a name in its own right in Russian — it is the everyday pet form of Sofia, and it means wisdom.
Russian #1,304 in US
Sonya Sonya means wisdom, and the Greek word behind it named a divine attribute before it named a person — Constantinople's great church was dedicated to Holy Wisdom, not to any saint called Sophia.
Russian #1,939 in US
Sonja Sonja means wisdom, and the great church of Constantinople carries the same word — Hagia Sophia was dedicated to Holy Wisdom as an aspect of God, not to any saint of that name.
Scandinavian #3,960 in US
Raymonde Raymonde is the French feminine of Raymond, meaning protecting counsel.
French 164,932 births

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