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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sophia

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#5

up +1 places

2025 births

12,561

up +435 births

All-time births

439,108

3% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
22,336 births
Best rank
#1
in 2011
First recorded
1880
#118 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2006
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 201222,336#1Peak
  2. 201121,863#1
  3. 201321,255#1
  4. 201020,656#2
  5. 201418,644#3

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1 in 2011 · peak births 22,336 in 2012

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

511 boys · 439,108 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sophia has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.