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Sohvi

Girls' name

Wisdom, through Sofia

Sohvi has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2018. 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 2018, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sohvi, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sohvi: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, through Sofia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sohvi means

Sohvi belongs to the name family reached through Sohvi → Sofia. Its meaning is “wisdom”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sohvi is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophie and Sofia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Sohvi is pronounced /ˈsohʋi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Sohvi between 2018 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #17,648 in 2019.

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.

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How common is Sohvi?

Sohvi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sohvi 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sohvi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sohvis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sohvi was born before 2018 — so the typical Sohvi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Sohvi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (5)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#17,648
2019

Spellings of Sohvi

Sohvi is not the most common spelling — Jovi is, with 19.3% against Sohvi's 0.09%.

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.

Sohvi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#17,648
2019
Peak year
2018
5 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sohvi

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

SoheeSohaniSohniSohnaJashviIshviSohpiaAkshviSohannyNahviSohelaSohanyRuthviRishviAhviSohailaJanhviSohiniSohanaYahviRithviKeshviAshviSadhvi

Sibling names for Sohvi

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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