Sophia

“Wisdom” — Greek origin

Girl's name · #5 in the US (2025) · 2010s

Sophia reached its best rank, #1, in 2011 and remains near the top at #5 today. It has spent 3 years as America's #1 name. Sophia's short forms are Sophie and Sophy. About 3,600 girls a year are given Sophie as their full name. Together with its spelling variant Sofia (#9), Sophia would be America's #1 girls' name with about 20,800 births last year — the newborns split roughly 60/40 between Sophia and Sofia. Popular twin pairings with Sophia include Olivia, Isabella, and Emma for girls, and Samuel, Nicholas, and Noah for boys.

Around the world: #1 in Germany (2025) · #5 in Austria (2025) · #5 in Canada (2024) · #6 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #9 in Scotland (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Sophias

Sophia Loren — Italian actress (born 1934)
Sophia Bush — American actress
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia — Russian tsarevna (1657–1704)
Sophia of Hanover — Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701
Sophia of Prussia — Queen consort of Greece (1870–1932)

In stories & tradition

Sophia — goddess
Sophia Peletier — The Walking Dead
Sophia Paramount — Bob Morane

What Sophias become

Among 1,159 notable people named Sophia:

Medical professionals appear 2.33× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sophia Jex-Blake, British physician and suffragist (1840–1912).

Similar names: Sofia · Isabella · Zoe · Mia · Chloe · Maya

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