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Sophy

#14,708 in 2025Girls' name

Wisdom, through Sophia

Sophy has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #14,708 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Sophy, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sophy: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, through Sophia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sophy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sophy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 508 girls were recorded with the name Sophy between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,996 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,003 in 2020 to #14,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,948 in 2015 to #14,708 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 Sophy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,708
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sophy 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sophy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sophys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sophy was born before 2005 — so the typical Sophy is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
451
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Sophy 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
−1,409
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,705
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,760
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2002 (24)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,996
1918

Spellings of Sophy

Sophy is not the most common spelling — Sophia is, with 74.3% against Sophy'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.

Where Sophy is used

Across 1910–2025, Sophy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,018,542 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. Sophy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sophy around the world

Where Sophy 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
    1996–2021
    #3,961
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1984–1999
    #426
    in 1999
  • France
    1966–2014
    #5,820
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1994–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1965–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sophy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,705
Best rank ever
#2,996
1918
Peak year
2002
24 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
508
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Sophy

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

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Sibling names for Sophy

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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