Sophie
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About Sophie
Sophie is the French form of the Greek Sophia, for which it is also commonly used as a nickname. Given Sophia's long standing among the Top 10 girl names in the US, Sophie may feel more popular than it actually is.
Sophies are scattered throughout European royal history, including Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and in modern times, Sophie, Duchess of Wessex, the wife of Britain's Prince Edward. German-born Catherine the Great was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, but changed her name to Catherine upon her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy.
Sophie is Sophia's cuter, more irreverent near-identical twin. Which do you like better? And do you see them as virtually the same name or very different? While you definitely couldn't name sisters Sophie and Sophia, you may have both on your short list and consider them distinctly separate choices. Sophie is lively and down-to-earth, while Sophia is more sophisticated and buttoned-up.
Sophie was the choice of both Eric Clapton and Luke Perry, as well as of Bette Midler for her now-grown daughter.
Sophie Zawistowska is the Polish heroine of the iconic William Styron novel Sophie's Choice, played in the 1982 film by Meryl Streep — who would play the mother of a Sophie decades later in Mamma Mia!.
Pronounced SO-fee.
As of October 2026, Sophie ranked #55 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #51 in 2011, Nameberry popularity #85.
Editor's take: The name Sophie is a girl's name of French, Greek origin meaning "wisdom".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #91 | 3,394 | 1,900 |
| 2015 | #104 | 2,952 | 1,653.7 |
| 2016 | #109 | 2,875 | 1,622.4 |
| 2017 | #106 | 2,837 | 1,643.2 |
| 2018 | #98 | 2,948 | 1,733 |
| 2019 | #85 | 3,185 | 1,897.7 |
| 2020 | #75 | 3,315 | 2,050.7 |
| 2021 | #76 | 3,329 | 2,028.8 |
| 2022 | #63 | 3,521 | 2,146.8 |
| 2023 | #60 | 3,589 | 2,236.7 |
| 2024 | #60 | 3,574 | 2,205.9 |
| 2025 | #55 | 3,984 | 2,478.7 |
World rankings
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Sophie on lists
Famous Sophies
- Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt
Zerbst,Dornburg, birth name of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
- Sophie Amalie of Brunswick
Lüneburg, Queen consort of Frederick III of Denmark and Norway
- Sophie of Württemberg (born Sophia Frederika Mathilde)
Queen consort of William III of the Netherlands
- Sophie Helene Cecilie
sovereign Princess consort of William of Albania
- Sophie Blanchard (born Marie Madeleine
Sophie Armant), French balloonist; wife of Jean,Pierre Blanchard
- (Carin) Sophie Adlersparre
Swedish feminist
- Sophie Flack
America novelist and dancer
- Sophie Tucker (born Sonya Kalish)
American actress and singer
- Sophie Sumner
English model
- (Marie
)Sophie Germain, French mathematician
- Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu)
French actress
- Sophie Michelle Ellis
Bextor, English singer,songwriter
- Sophie Helen Rhys
Jones, Countess of Wessex, wife of Britain's Prince Edward
- Sophie
Princess of Greece and Denmark; sister of Britain's Prince Philip
- Sophie Kinsella
pen name of Madeleine Sophie Wickham, English novelist
- Sophie Lowe
English actress
- Sophie Zelmani
Swedish singer,songwriter
- Sophie Vavasseur
Irish actress
- (Marie
)Sophie Nelisse, Canadian actress
- Sophie Nyweide
American actress
- Sophie Charlene Akland Monk
Australian singer of group Bardot
- Sophie McShera
British actress
- Sophie Irene Loeb
American journalist and activist
- Sophie Okonedo
British actress
- Sophie Hannah
English poet and novelist
- Sopho "Sophie" Shevardnadze
Russian journalist; granddaughter of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
- Sophie Tamiko Oda
American actress
- Sophie Auster
American singer,songwriter
- Sophie Dahl
English model, novelist, granddaughter of novelist Roald Dahl; inspiration for Sophie in "The BFG"
- Sophie Quinton
French actress
- Sophie Lara Winkleman
English actress
- Sophie Wu
British actress
- Sophie Dee
Welsh actress
- Sophie Ward
English actress; daughter of actor Simon Ward
- Sophie Ballantine Hawkins
American singer,songwriter
- Sophia "Sophie" Choudry
British actress, singer and VJ
- Sophie Evans
Welsh singer and actress
- Sophie Grégoire
Canadian TV host; wife of politician Justin Trudeau
- Sophie Gengembre Anderson
French,British painter
- Sophie Delila
French singer,songwriter
- Sophie Marguerite Daguin
French ballerina
- Hester Sophia Frances "Sophie" Grigson
English cookbook writer
- Sophie Magdalena Scholl
German anti,Nazi revolutionary
- Sophie Calle
French writer and photographer
- Sophie Braslau
American operatic contralto
- Sophie Thibault
Canadian TV journalist
- Sophie Aldred
English actress
- Sophie Louise Anderton
English model
- Sophie Antonie Luise Schröder
German actress
- Sophie Blake
English TV presenter
- Sophie Treadwell
American playwright and journalist
- Sophie Turner
Australian model
- Sophie Belinda Turner
English actress
- Sophie Lawrence
English actress
- Sophie Thompson
English actress; sister of actress Emma Thompson
- Sophie Lee
Australian actress
- (Maria) Sophie von La Roche
German novelist
- Sophie Kennedy Clark
Scottish actress
- Sophie Politt
Cohen, American author
- Sophie Rundle
English actress
- Sophie Rostopchine
Countess of Ségur, French children's novelist
- Sophie Price
English glamour model; sister of model Katie Price
- Sophie Cookson
English actress
- Sophie Muller
American music video director
- Sophie Clarke
American reality TV personality of "Survivor"
- Sophie Wilson (born Roger Wilson)
English computer scientist
- Sophie Howard
English model
- Sophie Kasaei
British Reality TV personality of "Geordie Shore"
- Sophie Briard
Auconie, French MEP
- Sophie Joissains
French Senator
- Sophia Helena "Sophie" in 't Veld
Dutch MEP
- Sophie Jane Raworth
English broadcast journalist
- Sophia Theresa "Sophie" Pemberton
Canadian painter
- (Maria) Sophie Weber
Austrian singer; sister,in,law of composer W.A. Mozart
- Sophie
Princess of Sweden (Sofia Vilhelmina Katarina Maria Lovisa Charlotta Anna), Grand Duchess of Baden
- Sophie Caroline Marie
Princess of Brunswick,Wolfenbüttel, Margravine of Brandenburg,Bayreuth
- Sophie Marie Franziska Antonia Ignatia Alberta
Princess of Hohenberg, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine
Princess of Bavaria; Archduchess Franz Karl of Austria; twin of sister Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine
- Sophie Augustine Ida Karoline Pauline Agnes Elisabeth Ernestine
Princess of Saxe,Weimar,Eisenach
- Sophie Antoinette
Princess of Brunswick,Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe,Coburg,Saalfeld; great,grandmother of Queen Victoria
- Sophie
Princess of the Netherlands (Wilhelmine Marie Sophie Louise); daughter of William II; one,time Dutch heir to the throne
- Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine
Princess of Luxembourg; daughter of Grand Duke William IV
- Sophie Hunter
English theatre director; wife of Benedict Cumberbatch
- Sophie Diana Schmidt
Canadian soccer player
- Sophie Crumb (b. 1981)
daughter of comics artists R. Crumb and Aline Kominsky
- Sophie von Haselberg (b. 1986)
American actress; daughter of Bette Midler
- Sophie Simmons (b. 1992)
daughter of KISS bassist Gene Simmons
- Sophie Cathérine Napoléon (b. 1992)
daughter of Charles, Prince Napoléon, heir to the Imperial House of France
- Sophie Shalhoub (b. 1993)
daughter of actor Tony Shalhoub
- Sophie Hoblit (b. 1995)
daughter of actress/model Debrah Farentino and director Gregory Hoblit
- Sophie al
Abdul (b. 1996), daughter of singer Diana Haddad and Suhail al,Abdul
- Sophie Michaels (b. 2001)
daughter of SNL creator Lorne Michaels
- Sophie Ostroy (b. 2003)
daughter of actress Adrienne Shelly and Andy Ostroy
- Sophie Rubin (b. 2004)
daughter of actress Julia Ormond and Jon Rubin
- Sophie Magnelli (b. 2006)
daughter of tennis player Sandrine Testud and coach Vittorio Magnelli
- Sophie Matthew (b. 2009)
daughter of golfer Catriona Matthew
- Sophie Neville (b. 2010)
daughter of footballer and coach Gary Neville
- Sophie White (b. 2014)
daughter of model and Miss Ireland 1998 Andrea Roche and Rob White
- Sophie Bevington (b. 2014)
daughter of rugby union player Ryan Bevington
- Sophie Lancaster (b. 1986)
20 year old British woman who was beaten to death for being a goth in 2007
- Sophie Rain (Izabella Blair)
American influencer and adult content creator
- Sophie Fergi
American actress and influencer
- Sophie Grace
American actress
Sophie in pop culture
- Sophie Sheridan
character in novel "The One Apart" by author Justine Avery
- Sophie Zawistowska
main character in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice"
- Sophia "Sophie" Collins Ashdown Lightwood
character in the Infernal Devices trilogy
- Sophie Fatale
character in the Kill Bill film series
- Sophie Abramowitz
character in the "Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls" series
- Sophie Hatter
character in 1986 fantasy book, and 2004 anime film "Howl's Moving Castle"
- Sophie Devereaux
character on TV's "Leverage"
- Sophie Martinez
character on TV's "Cory in the House"
- Sophie Maes
character in movie "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People "
- Sophie
main character in Roald Dahl's "The BFG"
- Sophie Bergmann
character in video game "Fullmetal Alchemist 3: Kami o Tsugu Shōjo"
- Sophie Burton
character on British soap "Hollyoaks"
- Sophie Kowalsky
main character in movie "Love Me If You Dare"
- Sophie Neveu
character in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"
- Sophie Newman
main character in Michael Scott's "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel"
- Sophie Simpson
character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
- Sophie Fairfax
character in Heather Vogel Frederick's Mother,Daughter Book Club series
- Sophia "Sophie" Mercer
main character in Hex Hall series by Rachel Hawkins
- Sophie Oseransky
character in movie "The Whole Nine Yards"
- Sophie Sheridan
character in musical "Mamma Mia"
- Sophie Webster
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- Sophie King
character in movie "Cyberbully"
- Sophie Parker
main character on Canadian TV series "Sophie"
- Sophie
Colonel Potter's horse on M*A*S*H
- Sophie Elizabeth Foster
Main Character in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger
- Sophie
from the School for Good and Evil book series
- Sophie Amundsen
main character in "Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy" by Jostein Gaarder
- Sophie
character in "Lights Out" by David F. Sandberg
- Sophie
character in video game Tales of Graces
- Sophie Neuenmuller
character in Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book
- Sophie
character in the graphic novel series 'Saga'
- Sophie Krustofsky
Krusty the Clown's daughter on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Sophie Benjamin
character on TV's "H2O: Just Add Water"
- Sophie
character in webcomic "The Rainstorm"
- "Taken: The Search for Sophie Parker
" TV movie
- "Sophie Roux"
song by the band Lady Danville
- Sophie Cardona
character on Netflix's "Greenhouse Academy"
- Sophie Battersea Greenaway
character in Joan Aiken's "Wolves Chronicles" series
- Sophia "Sophie" Williams Aubrey
wife of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey,Maturin" series