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in reply to a message by RainbowSerpent
After some more research on the Internet I can only conclude that my first thought was right: it must be a form of Greek Sophia "wisdom", but here used as a surname.
Zofiya can also be written as Sofiya. It is stated to be an Asian first name for girls. But it is also the early english pronounciation of Sophia, like Maria = ma-RY-a, or EYE-ris instead of eer-REEZ for Iris. I also found Zofiya to be a Turkish form of Zophia and somewhere else I found the theory that it is a Russian form.
So: this doesn't help you much to find out from which country your grandparents could originate. Also because I only found Zofiya used as a first name, not as a surname.
It might be possible that the surname comes from the name of a town or city, called Zofiya (also a form of Greek Sophia). I did not find a placename with this exact spelling. So I guess it will be almost impossible to find out where you can start looking. You will have to try to fing other kinds of clues that will help you further.
I wish you a lot of "wisdom".
Marina
Zofiya can also be written as Sofiya. It is stated to be an Asian first name for girls. But it is also the early english pronounciation of Sophia, like Maria = ma-RY-a, or EYE-ris instead of eer-REEZ for Iris. I also found Zofiya to be a Turkish form of Zophia and somewhere else I found the theory that it is a Russian form.
So: this doesn't help you much to find out from which country your grandparents could originate. Also because I only found Zofiya used as a first name, not as a surname.
It might be possible that the surname comes from the name of a town or city, called Zofiya (also a form of Greek Sophia). I did not find a placename with this exact spelling. So I guess it will be almost impossible to find out where you can start looking. You will have to try to fing other kinds of clues that will help you further.
I wish you a lot of "wisdom".
Marina
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