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Sofija

#5,377 in 2025Girls' name

Wisdom

Sofija has been given to 378 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #5,377 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Sofija, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sofija: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom

Ancient Greek and Greek

What Sofija means

Sofija means “wisdom”, associated with sophía.

Origin, language, and formation

Sofija is used in Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Greek.

Sofija comes through Ancient Greek σοφία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Sofija is pronounced [ˈsɔfʲɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 378 girls were recorded with the name Sofija between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,377 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,523 in 2020 to #5,377 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,209 in 2015 to #5,377 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 Sofija?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,377
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sofija 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sofija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sofijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sofija was born before 2014 — so the typical Sofija is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
378
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (166).

Is Sofija 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
+1,516
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,146
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+832
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (24)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,377
2025

Spellings of Sofija

Sofija is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 60.7% against Sofija's 0.12%.

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 Sofija is used

Across 1910–2025, Sofija was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 887,511 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Sofija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sofija around the world

Where Sofija 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
    2003–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #7,285
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1900–2025
    #337
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #536
    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.

Sofija by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,377
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,146
Best rank ever
#5,377
2025
Peak year
2025
24 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
378
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Sofija

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

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Sibling names for Sofija

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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