Sofiia

#10,802 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sofiya

Sofiia has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 2023. In 2025 it ranked #10,802 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Sofiia, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sofiia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sofiya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sofiia means

Sofiia is a alternate transcription of Sofiya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sofiya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Sofiia between 2023 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,547 in 2024.

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 Sofiia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,802
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sofiia 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sofiia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sofiias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sofiia was born before 2024 — so the typical Sofiia is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Sofiia 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
−3,255
Places dropped
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
60.0%
Peak was 2024 (15)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
95.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,547
2024

Spellings of Sofiia

Sofiia is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 62.0% against Sofiia'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.

Where Sofiia is used

Across 1910–2025, Sofiia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

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. Sofiia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sofiia around the world

Where Sofiia 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
    2022–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2018–2025
    #3,682
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sofiia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,802
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,547
2024
Peak year
2024
15 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Sofiia

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

Sibling names for Sofiia

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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