Sofi
Sofi was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,884 among girls’ names; 705 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sofi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sofi mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Sofi is “a diminutive of the female given name Sofía, equivalent to English Sophie”
/ˈsofi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sofi?
#5,884 among girls’ names, 2025
Sofi fell from #4,288 in 2015 to #5,884 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 13.1 per million.
49 babies in 2012, the peak
Sofi peaked in 2012, when 49 girls were given it, #3,357 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,884 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,104 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,105 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,454 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,819 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,632 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,148 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,591 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,469 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,830 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,288 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,755 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,070 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,357 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,059 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,383 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,005 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,726 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,207 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,099 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,496 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,342 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,332 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,766 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,292 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,381 | 5.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,432 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,209 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,263 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sofi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sofi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sofi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sofi, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Sofi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,060 people named Sofi (1,044 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sofi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sofi born?
The states with the most babies named Sofi are California, Texas and New York, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 103 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sofi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sofi is most over-represented in California: since 1992 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sofi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 195,027 babies since 1880, Sofi is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 8,492 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sofi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sofi and names like it
- Compare Sofi and SofiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSofi peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sofi since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Sofi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Sofi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sofi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.