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Sofya

#8,799 in 2025Girls' name

Wisdom, through Sophia

Sofya has been given to 287 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #8,799 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Sofya, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sofya: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, through Sophia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sofya means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sofya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 287 girls were recorded with the name Sofya between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,905 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,192 in 2020 to #8,799 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,060 in 2015 to #8,799 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 Sofya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,799
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sofya 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sofya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sofyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sofya was born before 2013 — so the typical Sofya is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Sofya 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
+2,186
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,393
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,261
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.2%
Peak was 2011 (23)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,905
2011

Spellings of Sofya

Sofya is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 34.8% against Sofya's 0.05%.

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 Sofya is used

Across 1910–2025, Sofya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,677,598 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Sofya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sofya around the world

Where Sofya 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
    2006–2024
    #3,016
    in 2024
  • France
    1980–2025
    #832
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021

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

Sofya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,799
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,393
Best rank ever
#5,905
2011
Peak year
2011
23 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
287
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Sofya

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

SofijaSofiSofhiaSofiahSofiyaSofinaSoffiaSofieSofiiaSofianaSofeeSofySofiyahSoffieSofiaSofiaroseSofiagraceSofiamarie

Sibling names for Sofya

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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