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Soffia

Girls' name

Wisdom, through Sophia

Soffia has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2010, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Soffia, 2023

1 in 663,000

Soffia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soffia: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, through Sophia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Soffia means

Soffia belongs to the name family reached through Soffia → Sophia. Its meaning is “wisdom”.

Origin, language, and formation

Soffia is used in Welsh.

Soffia comes through English Sophia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Soffia is pronounced /sɔˈfiːa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 girls were recorded with the name Soffia between 2001 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,232 in 2010.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Soffia?

Soffia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soffia 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soffia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soffias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soffia was born before 2012 — so the typical Soffia is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.8% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Soffia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (15)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,232
2010

Spellings of Soffia

Soffia is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 62.3% against Soffia's 0.02%.

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.

Soffia around the world

Where Soffia 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
    2007–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Soffia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,232
2010
Peak year
2010
15 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Soffia

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

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Sibling names for Soffia

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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