> And when i search for "soph", i only get "Sophie" in the > results and not "Sophia".
Do you want your query q=soph to return both Sophie and Sophia? If that's the case then you can use wildcard queries. q=soph* Also you didn't provide field definition type="text". It seems that you have stemming filter in your analysis chain. You can inspect how tokens Sophie and Sophia are indexed using solr/admin/analysis.jsp page.
