girls:
344 births since 1982
#5372 (6th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1988
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
349 births since 1982
#7390 (4th percentile)
The name Sophea is the #7,390 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 349 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,372 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 344 births since 1982. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1988.
Sophea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Sophea is available in 29 out of the 41 years between 1982 and 2022 (29 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Sophea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sophea reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #910) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Sophea reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #726) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sophea".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sophea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.9% confident that Sophea is pronounced as soh-FEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SOH-fee-uh, at 37.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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