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Sopheak vs Sophi

American parents have registered 537 Sophis since 1880, against 38 Sopheaks. Sophi is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sopheak against Sophi, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sopheak Sophi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Sophi for 33 years and Sopheak for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sopheak Sophi
Total US births 38537
Most in one year 1340
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 40530
Median age today 3915
Peak year 19852012
Best rank 3,401st boys3,854th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19851993
Girls / boys 0 / 38537 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sopheaks alive today are over 39; half the Sophis are over 15. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sopheak and Sophi.