Sobia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sobia has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Sobia, 2009
1 in 764,000
Sobia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sobia?
Sobia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,609 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sobia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sobia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sobias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sobia was born before 1995 — so the typical Sobia is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 61
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Sobia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (9)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Sobia
Sobia is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 36.5% against Sobia's <0.01%.
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.
Sobia around the world
Where Sobia 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 & Wales1996–2018#5,666in 2018
- Scotland1986–1986#485in 1986
- France1983–1989#3,600in 1989
- Canada1995–1995#2,576in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Sobia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sobia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sobia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.