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

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

1880 2023 18802023

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
#517
Current Rank
#908
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sophia

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sophia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 55.8% confident that Sophia is pronounced as soh-FEE-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is SOH-fee-uh, at 30.8% confidence.

soh-FAI-uh (3 syllables)
5.8% confidence
S OW0 F AY1 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Sophia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Sophia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SOH-fyuh (2 syllables)
3 names 171.3k births
S OW1 F Y AH0
SAH-fee-uh (3 syllables)
11 names 5.9k births
S AA1 F IY0 AH0

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.