Zofia
Zofia was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,172 among girls’ names; 2,013 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Zofia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zofia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zofia mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Zofia is “a female given name, equivalent to English Sophie”
Learned borrowing from Late Latin Sophia.
/ˈzɔ.fja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zofia?
#2,172 among girls’ names, 2025
Zofia rose from #2,809 in 2015 to #2,172 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.3 to 53.5 per million.
102 babies in 2011, the peak
Zofia peaked in 2011, when 102 girls were given it, #1,952 among girls’ names. The 86 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,172 | 53.5 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,693 | 40.1 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,378 | 48.0 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,173 | 53.7 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,232 | 51.2 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,099 | 54.4 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,375 | 45.3 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,301 | 47.0 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,634 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,205 | 49.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,809 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,235 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 98 | #2,001 | 55.8 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,046 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,952 | 58.0 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,257 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,394 | 44.1 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,537 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,929 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,700 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,165 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,088 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,215 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,376 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,315 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,698 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,653 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,009 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,156 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,525 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,951 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,796 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,790 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,306 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,138 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,494 | 5.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,317 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,301 | 4.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,328 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,622 | 2.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,737 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,595 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,246 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,819 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,340 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,028 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,131 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,185 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,630 | 12.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zofia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zofia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zofia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zofia, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,013 Americans ever recorded as Zofia. The median Zofia alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 4,758 people named Zofia (4,741 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 82 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 792 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
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 Zofia born?
The states with the most babies named Zofia are Illinois, Texas and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 12 | #795 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,208 | 0.3× |
| California | 8 | #2,486 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,829 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,624 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,481 | 0.2× |
Where Zofia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zofia is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1912 it was given 2.8 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 Zofia 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,701 babies since 1880, Zofia is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 104 babies (83%), again the 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 Zofia
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 Zofia and names like it
- Compare Zofia and ZophiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZofia peaked in 2011.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zofia since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zofia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Zofia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zofia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.