Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GreekSophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía 'Wisdom'. Other forms include Sophie, Sofiya, Sofija, Sophy, Sophea, and Sofie.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Sophia yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Sophia's trajectory is one of the sharper reversals in the current top ten: it was the #1 girls' name as recently as 2011, peaking at 22,335 births in 2012, and now sits at #6 with 12,088 in 2024 — a 35% drop over just the past decade, among the sharper reversals in this batch though not the sharpest.
It's been recorded since 1880, giving it more than a century of continuous use before its 2010s surge, and the name carries genuine historical range: Sophia of Hanover was an actual 17th-century royal, distinct from more recently invented "sophia" variants used in branding or fiction.
The decline pattern here looks similar to Emma's and Isabella's — all three peaked in the early-to-mid 2010s and have fallen by roughly a third since — suggesting a cohort of once-dominant, classically-toned names that rose together and are now cooling together, likely displaced by shorter or less familiar alternatives among parents looking for something that reads as less common.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 138 | #118 |
| 1881 | 122 | #131 |
| 1882 | 179 | #116 |
| 1883 | 159 | #129 |
| 1884 | 170 | #135 |
| 1885 | 185 | #134 |
| 1886 | 218 | #128 |
| 1887 | 192 | #137 |
| 1888 | 251 | #136 |
| 1889 | 251 | #139 |
| 1890 | 245 | #144 |
| 1891 | 220 | #153 |
| 1892 | 241 | #162 |
| 1893 | 247 | #159 |
| 1894 | 276 | #156 |
| 1895 | 259 | #164 |
| 1896 | 278 | #160 |
| 1897 | 278 | #164 |
| 1898 | 240 | #189 |
| 1899 | 238 | #180 |
| 1900 | 259 | #197 |
| 1901 | 221 | #187 |
| 1902 | 256 | #180 |
| 1903 | 213 | #199 |
| 1904 | 230 | #197 |
| 1905 | 237 | #198 |
| 1906 | 247 | #194 |
| 1907 | 265 | #198 |
| 1908 | 276 | #203 |
| 1909 | 256 | #222 |
| 1910 | 271 | #237 |
| 1911 | 272 | #238 |
| 1912 | 397 | #225 |
| 1913 | 429 | #232 |
| 1914 | 548 | #229 |
| 1915 | 692 | #227 |
| 1916 | 697 | #232 |
| 1917 | 698 | #235 |
| 1918 | 629 | #256 |
| 1919 | 604 | #261 |
| 1920 | 545 | #279 |
| 1921 | 489 | #299 |
| 1922 | 390 | #331 |
| 1923 | 369 | #342 |
| 1924 | 357 | #365 |
| 1925 | 289 | #403 |
| 1926 | 234 | #442 |
| 1927 | 240 | #448 |
| 1928 | 195 | #495 |
| 1929 | 169 | #527 |
| 1930 | 152 | #554 |
| 1931 | 133 | #574 |
| 1932 | 132 | #571 |
| 1933 | 103 | #649 |
| 1934 | 107 | #650 |
| 1935 | 101 | #658 |
| 1936 | 98 | #671 |
| 1937 | 104 | #669 |
| 1938 | 88 | #735 |
| 1939 | 99 | #687 |
| 1940 | 105 | #680 |
| 1941 | 107 | #680 |
| 1942 | 81 | #858 |
| 1943 | 104 | #761 |
| 1944 | 104 | #752 |
| 1945 | 103 | #736 |
| 1946 | 107 | #800 |
| 1947 | 108 | #847 |
| 1948 | 112 | #831 |
| 1949 | 123 | #781 |
| 1950 | 109 | #849 |
| 1951 | 153 | #709 |
| 1952 | 110 | #883 |
| 1953 | 129 | #815 |
| 1954 | 113 | #909 |
| 1955 | 152 | #782 |
| 1956 | 121 | #922 |
| 1957 | 188 | #730 |
| 1958 | 226 | #661 |
| 1959 | 277 | #595 |
| 1960 | 262 | #622 |
| 1961 | 324 | #547 |
| 1962 | 486 | #438 |
| 1963 | 524 | #426 |
| 1964 | 471 | #452 |
| 1965 | 509 | #416 |
| 1966 | 589 | #376 |
| 1967 | 603 | #367 |
| 1968 | 548 | #392 |
| 1969 | 593 | #385 |
| 1970 | 580 | #403 |
| 1971 | 591 | #385 |
| 1972 | 486 | #407 |
| 1973 | 455 | #429 |
| 1974 | 385 | #470 |
| 1975 | 380 | #487 |
| 1976 | 366 | #496 |
| 1977 | 432 | #457 |
| 1978 | 409 | #477 |
| 1979 | 493 | #424 |
| 1980 | 641 | #366 |
| 1981 | 1,235 | #211 |
| 1982 | 1,161 | #224 |
| 1983 | 1,196 | #210 |
| 1984 | 1,082 | #235 |
| 1985 | 1,098 | #236 |
| 1986 | 1,059 | #245 |
| 1987 | 1,124 | #238 |
| 1988 | 1,165 | #226 |
| 1989 | 1,059 | #254 |
| 1990 | 1,124 | #251 |
| 1991 | 1,263 | #226 |
| 1992 | 1,355 | #211 |
| 1993 | 1,498 | #196 |
| 1994 | 1,613 | #185 |
| 1995 | 1,765 | #168 |
| 1996 | 2,513 | #125 |
| 1997 | 3,640 | #94 |
| 1998 | 4,308 | #73 |
| 1999 | 5,423 | #53 |
| 2000 | 6,564 | #42 |
| 2001 | 7,162 | #37 |
| 2002 | 8,665 | #27 |
| 2003 | 9,686 | #20 |
| 2004 | 10,919 | #15 |
| 2005 | 12,678 | #12 |
| 2006 | 13,503 | #9 |
| 2007 | 17,031 | #6 |
| 2008 | 16,090 | #7 |
| 2009 | 16,951 | #4 |
| 2010 | 20,655 | #2 |
| 2011 | 21,861 | #1 |
| 2012 | 22,335 | #1 |
| 2013 | 21,253 | #1 |
| 2014 | 18,642 | #3 |
| 2015 | 17,451 | #3 |
| 2016 | 16,182 | #4 |
| 2017 | 14,936 | #5 |
| 2018 | 14,004 | #5 |
| 2019 | 13,813 | #4 |
| 2020 | 13,095 | #5 |
| 2021 | 12,578 | #6 |
| 2022 | 12,375 | #5 |
| 2023 | 11,984 | #5 |
| 2024 | 12,088 | #6 |
