Sofian
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sofian has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2005, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Sofian, 2024
1 in 669,000
Sofian 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sofian?
Sofian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sofian sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sofian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sofians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sofian was born before 2010 — so the typical Sofian is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 82
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (30).
Is Sofian 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
- —
- 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 2005 (11)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.3% average annual change
Spellings of Sofian
Sofian is not the most common spelling — Dorian is, with 77.7% against Sofian's 0.26%.
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.
Sofian around the world
Where Sofian 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- France1972–2025#3,072in 2025
- Canada2005–2014#2,134in 2014
- South Australia1972–1972#479in 1972
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sofian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sofian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sofian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.