Sofya
Sofya was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,799 among girls’ names; 287 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sofya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sofya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sofya is “Alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sofya?
#8,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Sofya rose from #10,060 in 2015 to #8,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
23 babies in 2011, the peak
Sofya peaked in 2011, when 23 girls were given it, #5,905 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,799 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,985 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,057 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,242 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,398 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,192 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,615 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,420 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,498 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,747 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,060 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,969 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,699 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,641 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,905 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,641 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,408 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,900 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,040 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,458 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,713 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,574 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,647 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,425 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,293 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sofya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sofya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sofya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sofya, and how old are they?
An estimated 285 Americans named Sofya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,417 people named Sofya (1,416 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.4 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 195,115 babies since 1880, Sofya is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 8,488 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Sofya
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 Sofya and names like it
- Compare Sofya and SofiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSofya peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sofya since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Sofya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sofya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.