Sophia

girls:

414.2k births since 1880

#86 (99th percentile)

boys:

499 births since 1917

#4087 (11th percentile)

overall:

414.7k births since 1880

#171 (98th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Sophia is the #171 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 414,701 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #86 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 414,202 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,087 (10.8% percentile) for all time with 499 births since 1917.

Sophia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys).

The name Sophia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Sophia reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 11,281 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 11,515 births per million (ranked 100.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sophia ranks #5 for girls (99.6% percentile) with 6,828 births per million, which is 59.3% of its peak share of births.

For boys, Sophia reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #812) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sophia ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 23.1% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sophia".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
414,202
Peak Births
22,333
Peak Year
2011
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
100.0%
Current Percentile
99.6%
Peak Rank
#1
Current Rank
#5
Female statistics
Total Births
499
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
4.1%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#812
Current Rank
#908
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sophia

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sophia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.6% confident that Sophia is pronounced as soh-FEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SOH-fee-uh, at 31.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S OW0 F IY1 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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