Sofia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Sofia boys named Sofia

By the numbers

Total US births

186,931

Estimated living today

183,000

Median age today

11

Peak year

2015

Best rank

14th

Rank in 2025

9th

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

186,744 / 187

How old the living Sofias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 186,931 babies given the name since 1881, about 183,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 139,000 of them are children and 810 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Variant spelling of Sophia and from various other languages' own adaptations of Ancient Greek Σοφία (“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”). Sometimes borrowed into English as an anglicization of an accented or closely related form, as with Spanish Sofía, Welsh Soffia, and Hungarian Zsófia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Sofias

• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)19th-century Russian mathematician
• Sofia Rotaru (born 1947)Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress
• Sofia Coppola (born 1971)American filmmaker
• Queen Sofía of Spain (born 1938)queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014
• Infanta Sofía of Spain (born 2007)younger child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia
• Sofia Carson (born 1993)American singer, actress, dancer and songwriter
• Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025)Soviet and Russian composer
• Sofia Kenin (born 1998)Russian-American tennis player

People named Sofia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Sofia is most common

• CA39,112
• TX28,781
• FL14,483
• NY13,337
• IL9,173
• NJ6,719
• AZ4,791
• MA4,153
• GA4,052
• WA4,041

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sofia is most concentrated in Nevada (3.1×), Florida (2.3×), California (2.1×), Arizona (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular girls’ names the year Sofia peaked:

• Emma
• Olivia
• Sophia
• Ava
• Isabella
• Mia

All the names of 2015

Sofia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Sofia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Sofia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 1.24% of children were given it – 774 of them.

Sofia: rank by region

In 2025, Sofia was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2024, Sofia was among the 10 most common names in 18 regions of Spain, and first in 11 of them. It has come first somewhere in 9 different years.

In 2024, Sofia was among the 10 most common names in 21 regions of Italy, and first in 12 of them. It has come first somewhere in 18 different years.

In 2025, Sofia was given 2 times or more in 17 regions of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Sofia appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (1st), Nord-est (1st), Isole (1st), Centro (2nd) and Sud (3rd).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sofia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (Sofia, 3rd), Province of Liège (Sofia, 3rd), Province of Namur (Sofia, 7th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Sofia, 9th), Province of Hainaut (Sofia, 11th), Province of Limburg (Sofia, 15th), Province of East Flanders (Sofia, 16th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Sofia, 19th), Province of Antwerp (Sofia, 21st), Province of Luxembourg (Sofia, 35th), Province of West Flanders (Sofia, 38th) and Brussels-Capital Region (Sofía, 194th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Sofia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Sofia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 66,529 who carry it, 12,907 go by it.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Sofia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 99,913 women called Sofia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Sofie
• Sofiya
• Sofi

Sofia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Sofia vs Sophia
• Sofia vs Sofie
• Sofia vs Sofiya
• Sofia vs Sofi

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