Sophia
Top 1000
About Sophia
Sophia, which was the Number 1 girls' name in the US from 2011 to 2013, is among the top girl names in the Western World, with a sensuous sound and high-minded meaning. A real winner, Sophia reached the top of the charts without losing any—okay, much—of its sophisticated beauty.
Derived from sophia, the Greek word for wisdom, the name was first famous via St. Sophia, venerated in the Greek Orthodox church—St. Sophia was the mother of three daughters named Faith, Hope and Love. It was first used in England in the seventeenth century and was the name of George I's both mother and wife.
Like its sister baby girl names Isabella and Olivia, Sophia has gained widespread favor by appealing to a broad range of parents: Intellectuals who like it for its meaning and those attracted to its femininity, parents who want a classic name and those looking for a name with Latin roots. The Sofia spelling is also popular. Sophie is the French version of the name, more popular than Sophia in some parts of the world. Legend Sophia Loren was originally Sofia.
Sophia has been an author favorite from the days of early novelists like Henry Fielding (Tom Jones) and Jane Austen (Persuasion) to the TV scriptwriters of today (The Walking Dead, Orange is the New Black).
Sophia's only downside is its huge popularity; it's actually even more popular than it appears, because alternate spelling Sofia falls in the Top 20 on the US popularity chart. Alternative baby names you might want to consider: Sophie, Seraphina, Susannah, Zofia.
Pronounced soh-FEE-uh.
As of October 2026, Sophia ranked #5 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1 in 2011, Nameberry popularity #54.
Editor's take: The name Sophia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3 | 18,642 | 10,435.8 |
| 2015 | #3 | 17,451 | 9,775.9 |
| 2016 | #4 | 16,182 | 9,131.9 |
| 2017 | #5 | 14,936 | 8,651.2 |
| 2018 | #5 | 14,004 | 8,232.4 |
| 2019 | #4 | 13,813 | 8,230 |
| 2020 | #5 | 13,095 | 8,100.6 |
| 2021 | #6 | 12,578 | 7,665.5 |
| 2022 | #5 | 12,375 | 7,545.1 |
| 2023 | #5 | 11,984 | 7,468.6 |
| 2024 | #6 | 12,088 | 7,460.9 |
| 2025 | #5 | 12,561 | 7,815.1 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Sophia.
- Isabella
- Emma
- Olivia
- Chloe
- Sophie
- Mia
- Grace
- Emily
- Ella
- Sofia
- Ava
- Abigail
- Lily
- Amelia
- Eva
- Claire
- Anna
- Isabelle
- Hannah
- Madeline
Sophia on lists
Famous Sophias
- Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
Queen consort of Frederick William I of Prussia
- Sophia Wilhelmine Marianne Henriette of Nassau
Queen consort of Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
- Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
Queen consort of Frederick I of Prussia
- Sophia Dorothea of Celle
Electress of Hanover, repudiated wife of George I of Britain
- Sophia Magdalena of Denmark
Queen consort of Gustav III of Sweden
- Aelia Sophia
Empress consort of Justin II of the Byzantine Empire
- Sophia of Halshany
queen consort of Jogaila of Poland
- Sophia of Minsk
Queen consort of Valdemar I of Denmark
- Sophia
Electress of Hanover, one,time heir to the British throne
- Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone)
Italian actress
- Sophia Matilda
Princess of the U.K.; daughter of King George III
- Sophia Alekseyevna
regent of Russia
- Sophia Anna Bush
American actress
- Sophia Grace Brownlee
English child singer
- Sophia Sampaio Abrahão
Brazilian singer and actress
- AnnaSophia Robb
American actress
- Sophia Jagiellon
Margravine of Brandenburg,Ansbach
- Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok
Russian poet
- Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne
American painter; wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sophia Kokosalaki
Greek fashion designer
- Sophia Jane Myles
English actress (pronounces it "so,FY,a")
- Sophia Amoruso
founder of online vintage clothing shop Nasty Gal
- Sophia Elizabeth Gennusa
American actress
- Sophia Müller
Indonesian actress and singer
- Sophia Kiely
English actress
- Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
American Unitarian author and religious leader
- Sophia Alexandra "Sophie" Falconer Stewart (b. 1973)
daughter of actor Patrick Stewart
- Sophia Richards (b. 1975)
daughter of actor Michael Richards
- Sophia Stockwell (b. 1985)
daughter of actor Dean Stockwell
- Sophia Morris
daughter of singer Stevie Wonder
- Sophia Tatum
daughter of actors Bradford Tatum and Stacy Haiduk
- Sophia Stallone (b. 1996)
daughter of actor Sylvester Stallone
- Sophia Aurora Silveria (b. 1999)
daughter of drummer David Silveria of band Korn
- Sophia Madrien Soleil Bell (b. 2001)
daughter of singer Tara McLean
- Sophia Eva Meloni (b. 2001)
daughter of actor Christopher Meloni
- Sophia Rosalinda Bratt (b. 2002)
daughter of actors Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto
- Sophia Bana (b. 2002)
daughter of actor Eric Bana
- Sophia Lucinda Davison (b. 2006)
daughter of actor Bruce Davison
- Sophia Elizabeth Wormald (b. 2008)
daughter of actress Julia Haworth and Jon Wormald
- Sophia Law (b. 2009)
daughter of actor Jude Law and Samantha Burke
- Sophia Umansky (b. 2009)
daughter of reality TV personality Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky
- Sophia Laurent Abraham (b. 2009)
daughter of reality TV personality Farrah Abraham ("Teen Mom")
- Sophia Winans (b. 2010)
daughter of gospel singer Juan Winans
- Sophia Grace Mitchell (b. 2010)
daughter of actor Benjamin Mitchell
- Sophia Marguerite Kendrick (b. 2011)
daughter of reality TV personality Stephenie LaGrossa and baseball player Kyle Kendrick
- Sophia Ruby Crouch (b. 2011)
daughter of model Abbey Clancy and rugby player Peter Crouch
- Sophia Nalçacıoğlu (b. 2011)
daughter of Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak and Murat Nalçacıoğlu
- Sophia Ann Grace Donald (b. 2011)
daughter of golfer Luke Donald
- Sophia Jane Stewart (b. 2012)
daughter of footballers Julie Fleeting and Colin Stewart
- Sophia Rose Gareis Ghassemieh (b. 2012)
daughter of actress Jennifer Gareis and Bobby Ghassemieh
- Sophia Ecclestone
Rutland (b. 2014) , daughter of socialite Tamara Ecclestone and Jay Rutland
- Sophia Olivia Murray (b. 2016)
daughter of tennis player Andy Murray
- Sophia Elizabeth Rooney (b. 2019)
daughter of actress Christy Carlson Romano
- Sophia 'Phia' Saban
English actress
- Sophia Laforteza
member of Katseye
- Sophia Reid-Gantzert
Canadian actress
Sophia in pop culture
- Sophia
Japanese rock band
- Sophia
character in the "Fallen" series, by Lauren Kate
- "The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley
" novel and its main character
- Sophia Western
in "The History of Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
- Sophia Burset
on TV's "Orange is the New Black"
- Sophia Lopez
character on TV's "Nip/Tuck"
- Sophia Peletier
character on TV's "The Walking Dead"
- Sophia Petrillo
character on TV's "The Golden Girls"
- Sophia Hapgood
in video game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis"
- Sophia Esteed
in video game "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time"
- Sophia
in video game "Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi"
- Sophia
character in anime "Yu,Gi,Oh!"
- Sophia Forrester
in animated TV series "Last Exile"
- Sophia Tutu
on animated TV series "The Raccoons"
- Sophia "Sophie" Williams Aubrey
wife of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey,Maturin" series
- Sophia Gibson
character in The After Series by Anna Todd
- Aunt Sophia
character in movie "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble"
- "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus"
Song by Taylor Swift featured on "The Tortured Poets Department"
Variations & nicknames
- SophieFrench
- SoniaUkrainian
- SonjaNorwegian
- SofiyaUkrainian
- ZofkaCzech
- ZofieCzech
- ZoshaPolish
- ZochaPolish
- ZofiaCzech
- SafaArabic
- SohviFinnish
- ChofiSpanish
- SofijaCroatian
- ChofaSpanish
- SoficitaSpanish
- TzophiahHebrew
- ZsófikaHungarian
- SophoonGreek
- SofyaTurkish
- SophiPersian
- SophroniaGreek
- ZosiaPolish
- SofiGreek
- FifiSpanish
- SofkaUkrainian
- SofiePersian
- SonyushaUkrainian
- ZsófiaHungarian
- SonyaUkrainian
- SophyPersian
- SonyuruUkrainian
- SafiyahArabic