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Zofia

#2,172 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Sophia

Zofia has been given to 2,013 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,172 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Zofia, 2025

1 in 38,500

Zofia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zofia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sophia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zofia means

Zofia is a form of Sophia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zofia → Sophia. The family’s meaning is “wisdom”, recorded in English with the source elements sophía.

Origin, language, and formation

Zofia is used in Polish.

Zofia comes through Late Latin Sophia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophia and Sophie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Zofia is pronounced /ˈzɔ.fja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,013 girls were recorded with the name Zofia between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,952 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,099 in 2020 to #2,172 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,809 in 2015 to #2,172 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 Zofia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,500
86 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,172
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zofia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,721 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zofia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zofias were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,938
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (840).

Is Zofia 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
+521
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−73
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+637
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.37×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.3%
Peak was 2011 (102)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,952
2011

Spellings of Zofia

Zofia is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 50.6% against Zofia's 0.55%.

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 Zofia is used

Across 2016–2025, Zofia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 22,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

223 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,348
  2. 2New York1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 25,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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.

Zofia around the world

Where Zofia 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
    1996–2025
    #573
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2022
    #354
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1923–2024
    #4,236
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #302
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #1,345
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1949–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Zofia

People whose public names include Zofia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zofia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zofia. Linked forms have their own page here.

SofiaSofieZosiaSophiaSophieSofíaSoffíaZofijaZsófia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zofia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,172
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 73
Best rank ever
#1,952
2011
Peak year
2011
102 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,013
Count in 2025
86

Names similar to Zofia

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

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Names with a curve like Zofia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zofia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zofia

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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