This is the most beautiful girl's name in the world, according to science

Could we determine the beauty of a name in an objective way? A priori not because beauty is such a subjective attribute that it is practically impossible to measure. However, science has determined the beauty of different names. Exactly, some of the most popular and well-known names in an English-speaking country.

This is the most beautiful girl's name in the world, according to science

How is it possible for science to take into account the beauty of a name when this is such a variable attribute between people? Well, taking as main variables some of the linguistic principles that determine which sounds are more and less pleasant to the human ear. And yes, there are sounds that, by their very nature, cause a more or less pleasant sensation in our brain when we listen to them out loud.

Taking into account that names are made up of sounds, we could determine that, indeed, there are some names that provoke sweetness when we hear them and others that provoke some type of rejection in our brain due to their own linguistic nature. Although yes, there are also names that cause rejection due to their cultural connotations, we do not want to stop at them now.

A study has revealed which is the most beautiful name in the world

Precisely everything we have explained now has been the operation of one of the few scientific studies that exist on the beauty of names. An investigation carried out from a survey that was carried out by the baby products brand My 1ºYears (from the United Kingdom), and Bodo Winter, associate professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom.

Those responsible for it took into account the principles of sound and aesthetics of words to determine a list of the most beautiful names in the world. But, how did they make the first selection of names that they were going to analyze? They did not take into account all the names that exist in the world, because the number is practically infinite. They only included a few names on the list and, of them, they surveyed the brand's regular customers to define the prettiest and the ugliest.

“The names that obtained the highest scores were those that provoked the most positive emotions when spoken out loud and that are most likely to sound better to the human ear,” Professor Winter defined in a press release.

The most beautiful name in the world

The first name that appears on the list is a girl's name, quite common in Spain: Sophia. Taking this into account we can say that science and artificial intelligence have agreed to define it because, according to ChatGPT, the most beautiful name in the world is the Spanish variant Sofía.

It is, as we say, a very common name in Spain: according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, its Spanish variant Sofia is currently carried by 88,326 women with an average age of 18.9 years and it was one of the most popular names in the newborn babies last year.

The origin that appears in the study, Sophia, is carried in Spain by 1,5342 women.

Origin and name day of Sophia

We are talking about a woman's name of Greek origin that derives from the word Σoφíα (Sophia) and that means 'she who has wisdom'. Although its Latin and English variants are those defined by science as the most beautiful name in the world, the truth is that they are not the only popular ones: Sophie, in French, Zsófia in Hungarian, or Sonia, in Ukrainian, are other well-known variants.

We celebrate her name day every September 18 in honor of a Christian martyr who bore this name.