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Apphia

#4,364 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly increasing

Apphia has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #4,364 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Apphia, 2025

1 in 104,000

Apphia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apphia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly increasing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Apphia means

Apphia may mean “increasing”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 257 girls were recorded with the name Apphia between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,364 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,105 in 2020 to #4,364 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,979 in 2015 to #4,364 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Apphia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,364
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apphia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apphia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apphias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apphia was born before 2019 — so the typical Apphia is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
257
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Apphia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+411
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,741
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,615
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (32)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,364
2025

Spellings of Apphia

Apphia is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 97.3% against Apphia's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Apphia around the world

Where Apphia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #7,138
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Apphia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,364
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,741
Best rank ever
#4,364
2025
Peak year
2025
32 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Apphia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AppleAmahiaAlahiaAnahiaSofhiaZophiaMakhiaNahiaNakhiaMekhiaAlphiaKishiaTishiaMeshiaAlthiaJeshiaZakhiaPachiaAyshiaMahiaTyshiaNashiaArshiaCythia

Sibling names for Apphia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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