Sophiya
Sophiya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,952 among girls’ names; 282 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sophiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sophiya?
#16,952 among girls’ names, 2025
Sophiya fell from #7,947 in 2015 to #16,952 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.1 per million.
27 babies in 2013, the peak
Sophiya peaked in 2013, when 27 girls were given it, #5,130 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,952 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,993 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,288 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,047 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,882 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,302 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,316 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,395 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,163 | 11.9 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,947 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,414 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,130 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,100 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,812 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,594 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,366 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,901 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,726 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,938 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,025 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,835 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,150 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sophiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sophiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sophiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sophiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Sophiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Sophiya (303 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Sophiya?
Sophiya is a less common spelling of Sophia: SSA has recorded 282 Sophiya and 439,619 Sophia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 581,810 babies since 1880, Sophiya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 16,632 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Sophiya
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 Sophiya and names like it
- Compare Sophiya and SophiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSophiya peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Sophiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sophiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.