Named after Sophia Rawdon-Hastings, the second wife of John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, the park was acquired by Cardiff Council (then the Cardiff Corporation) from the Marquis of Bute in 1947.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | 2nd United States Congress | Michigan's 2nd congressional district | 2nd | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Isle of Bute | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey |
Daughter of the 1st Marquess of Hastings and wife to the 2nd Marquess of Bute, Lady Sophia was concerned to provide open space for recreation in the rapidly expanding city in the late 19th century, in which her husband was heavily involved.