girls:
5 births since 1987
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1985
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
19 births since 1985
#7720 (0th percentile)
The name Sophana is the #7,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1987.
Sophana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Sophana is available in 3 out of the 3 years between 1985 and 1987 (2 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Sophana has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1987, 0.0% of babies named Sophana were boys.
For boys, Sophana reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #693) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
For girls, Sophana reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #802) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sophana".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Sophana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.7% confident that Sophana is pronounced as soh-FAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is soh-FA-nuh, at 21.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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