Sophie

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Sophie boys named Sophie

By the numbers

Total US births

138,694

Estimated living today

99,000

Median age today

14

Peak year

2011

Best rank

51st

Rank in 2025

55th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

138,577 / 117

How old the living Sophies are

born that year still alive today

Of the 138,694 babies given the name since 1880, about 99,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 65,000 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Sophies

• Sophie Marceau (born 1966)French actress
• Sophie Scholl (1921–1943)German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose
• Sophie Turner (born 1996)British actress
• Sophie Germain (1776–1831)French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
• Sophie Wilmès (born 1975)Belgian politician
• Sophie Monk (born 1979)Australian actor and singer
• Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868–1914)wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
• Sophie Kinsella (1969–2025)British writer

People named Sophie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Sophie is most common

• NY13,264
• CA12,952
• PA8,906
• TX8,120
• IL7,182
• MA5,959
• NJ5,133
• FL4,461
• MI4,450
• OH4,291

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sophie is most concentrated in Utah (2.3×), Connecticut (2.2×), Massachusetts (1.9×), New Hampshire (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2011

The most popular girls’ names the year Sophie peaked:

• Sophia
• Isabella
• Emma
• Olivia
• Ava
• Emily

All the names of 2011

Sophie elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Sophie: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Sophie is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.47% of children were given it – 297 of them.

Sophie: rank by region

In 2025, Sophie was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Sophie was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Sophie was given 2 times or more in 12 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sophie appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (58th), Province of Liège (84th) and Brussels-Capital Region (159th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Sophie by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Sophie among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Sophie lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,773 women called Sophie were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 39 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 13 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Sophia
• Sophronia
• Sophya
• Sophi
• Sophy

Sophie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Sophie vs Sophia
• Sophie vs Sophronia
• Sophie vs Sophya
• Sophie vs Sophi
• Sophie vs Sophy

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