girls:
131k births since 1880
#305 (95th percentile)
boys:
117 births since 1907
#4469 (2nd percentile)
overall:
131.1k births since 1880
#569 (93rd percentile)
The name Sophie is the #569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 131,093 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #305 (94.7% percentile) for all time with 130,976 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,469 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1907.
Sophie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1907 for boys).
The name Sophie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sophie reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 94.7% percentile (ranked #51) with 2,442 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 2,442 births per million (ranked 94.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sophie ranks #58 for girls (94.0% percentile) with 2,046 births per million, which is 83.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sophie reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sophie ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sophie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sophie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sophie is pronounced as SOH-fee, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S OW1 F IY0) 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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