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Sofie

#1,539 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Sophie

Sofie has been given to 5,003 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #1,539 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 254 recorded.

Babies named Sofie, 2025

1 in 24,000

Sofie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sofie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sophie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sofie means

Sofie is a form of Sophie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sofie → Sophie → Sophia. The family’s meaning is “wisdom”, recorded in English with the source elements sophía.

Origin, language, and formation

Sofie is used in Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophie, Sophia and Sofia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Sofie is pronounced [ˈsofɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,003 girls were recorded with the name Sofie between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 254 in 2012; its best national rank was #997 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,306 in 2020 to #1,539 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,370 in 2015 to #1,539 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sofie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,000
138 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,539
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sofie 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,653 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sofie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sofies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sofie was born before 2011 — so the typical Sofie is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,705
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (1,986).

Is Sofie 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
−83
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−233
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−169
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.3%
Peak was 2012 (254)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#997
2012

Spellings of Sofie

Sofie is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 18.4% against Sofie's 0.49%.

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.

Where Sofie is used

Across 2016–2025, Sofie was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 11,096 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,762
  2. 2California1 in 7,692
  3. 3New York1 in 7,692
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 9,091
  5. 5Colorado1 in 10,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 10,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  8. 8Utah1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Sofie around the world

Where Sofie 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
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1996–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #7,456
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #6
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sofie

People whose public names include Sofie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sofie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sofie. Linked forms have their own page here.

SofiaZofiaSophiaSophieFieSofíaŽofieSoffíaSzófiaZsófia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sofie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,539
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 233
Best rank ever
#997
2012
Peak year
2012
254 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,003
Count in 2025
138

Names similar to Sofie

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

SofiyaSofiSofyaSofijaEffieSofiaSofhiaJeffieBuffieSofiahSofinaSoffieElfieSoffiaSofiiaSofianaAlfieSteffieSofeeSofyCliffieOffieZeffieAffie

Names with a curve like Sofie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sofie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SamiyahAilynJazzlynMarlieAmiahMalakLilyannaDalilahKaelynnAlyviaNeveahLeilah

Sibling names for Sofie

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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