Sophia

What the Data Says About Sophia

The Social Security Administration has registered 439,108 babies named Sophia between 1880 and 2025, spanning 146 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sophia currently holds the #6 rank among girls for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 22,336 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sophia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 181,174 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Sophia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 68,267 births, the largest state-level total in the dataset, followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sophia in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sophia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 439,108 total represents a lower bound, actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.