Sophelia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sophelia has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1979, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Sophelia, 2015
1 in 617,000
Sophelia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sophelia?
Sophelia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sophelia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sophelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sophelias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sophelia was born before 1979 — so the typical Sophelia is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 40
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Sophelia 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (8)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Sophelia
Sophelia is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 85.6% against Sophelia's <0.01%.
Sophelia around the world
Where Sophelia 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 & Wales2024–2024#5,892in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Sophelia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sophelia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sophelia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.