Sofie
Sofie was given to 138 girls in 2025, #1,539 among girls’ names; 5,003 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,700 Americans named Sofie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sofie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sofie mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Sofie is “a female given name, variant of Sophie and Sophia”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sofie?
#1,539 among girls’ names, 2025
Sofie fell from #1,370 in 2015 to #1,539 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.9 to 85.9 per million.
254 babies in 2012, the peak
Sofie peaked in 2012, when 254 girls were given it, #997 among girls’ names. The 138 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138 | #1,539 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 151 | #1,456 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,386 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,575 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 169 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,494 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 163 | #1,408 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 173 | #1,370 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 204 | #1,197 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 216 | #1,125 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 254 | #997 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 249 | #1,009 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,089 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 210 | #1,197 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 224 | #1,150 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 201 | #1,237 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 153 | #1,460 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,478 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 121 | #1,612 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,871 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,194 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,205 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,135 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,177 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,881 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,699 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,491 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,947 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,168 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,442 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,206 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,480 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,301 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,887 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,463 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,338 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,511 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,589 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,218 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,387 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,904 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,700 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,135 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,242 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,382 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,918 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,522 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,220 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,606 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,636 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,367 | 0.01 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,561 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sofie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sofie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sofie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sofie, and how old are they?
4,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,003 Americans ever recorded as Sofie. The median Sofie alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,477 people named Sofie (4,464 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 58 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Sofie born?
The states with the most babies named Sofie are California, New York and Illinois, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,474 | 1.1× |
| New York | 13 | #1,150 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 9 | #1,000 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,888 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,863 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,263 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,596 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,671 | 0.4× |
Where Sofie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sofie is most over-represented in California: since 1910 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 Sofie 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 333,184 babies since 1880, Sofie is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 138 of their 12,467 babies (1.1%), again the third 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 Sofie
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 Sofie and names like it
- Compare Sofie and SofiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSofie peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sofie since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Sofie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Sofie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sofie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.