girls:
1.1k births since 1994
#4653 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1994
#6676 (14th percentile)
The name Sofiya is the #6,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,063 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 13.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,653 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 1,063 births since 1994.
Sofiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (first recorded for girls in 1994). Birth data for Sofiya is available in 27 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Sofiya reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #879) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 42 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sofiya is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #879 (7.2% percentile) with 42 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sofiya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sofiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Sofiya is pronounced as soh-FEE-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is soh-FEE-uh, at 30.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S OW0 F IY1 Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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