Zophia
Zophia was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,542 among girls’ names; 688 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zophia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zophia?
#6,542 among girls’ names, 2025
Zophia fell from #3,594 in 2015 to #6,542 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 11.2 per million.
48 babies in 2013, the peak
Zophia peaked in 2013, when 48 girls were given it, #3,363 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,542 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,888 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,742 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,980 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,958 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,075 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,543 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,355 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,690 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,248 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,594 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,545 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,363 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,708 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,494 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,568 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,310 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,737 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,521 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,896 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,115 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,088 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,570 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,421 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,962 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,639 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,935 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zophia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zophia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zophia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zophia, and how old are they?
An estimated 683 Americans named Zophia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 496 people named Zophia (496 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,701 babies since 1880, Zophia is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 104 babies (17%), again the second 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 Zophia
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 Zophia and names like it
- Compare Zophia and ZofiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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