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Sopheap

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Gentle, proper

Sopheap has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1986, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.

Babies named Sopheap, 1992

1 in 768,000

Sopheap over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sopheap over time

In 1992, Sopheap went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19811992

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sopheap: meaning, origin, and history

Gentle, proper

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sopheap means

Sopheap means “gentle, proper”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sopheap is used in Khmer.

Another recorded pronunciation is /so.ˈpʰiəp/ for Sopheap.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 80 girls were recorded with the name Sopheap between 1981 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1986; its best national rank was #4,932 in 1986.

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Sopheap between 1983 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1983; its best national rank was #4,854 in 1983.

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 Sopheap?

Sopheap had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sopheap 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 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sopheap. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sopheaps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sopheap was born before 1986 — so the typical Sopheap is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
87.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
80
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1980s — 87.5% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Sopheap 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 1986 (16)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,932
1986

Spellings of Sopheap

Sopheap is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 99.8% against Sopheap's 0.02%.

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 Sopheap is used

Across 1910–2025, Sopheap was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,176,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Sopheap has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sopheap around the world

Where Sopheap 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.

  • France
    1983–1984
    #3,495
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sopheap 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,932
1986
Peak year
1986
16 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
80
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,854
1983
Peak year
1983
8 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sopheap

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

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Sibling names for Sopheap

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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