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Sophia
Pronounced /soʊˈfi.ə/
Rank in 2024
#6
Born in 2024
12,088
Peak year
2012 · #1
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 12,088 girls were named Sophia, about 1 in every 133.
- It peaked in 2012 with 22,335 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 426,419 girls have been named Sophia since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Sophia per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 6.8Gen Z1997–12
- 8.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 10,351 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Silent: 2,085 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,095 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,060 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 21,310 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Z: 197,471 babies, 6.80 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 178,401 babies, 8.78 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Chiefly from Latin Sophia, from Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía), from σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”), especially in reference to holy or divine wisdom under the influence of Biblical Hebrew חוכמה (khokhmá), to the early martyr St. Sophia, and to many figures of European royalty and nobility. Also used as a calque for the many cognate forms, such as Italian Sofia, Ukrainian Софі́я (Sofíja), Russian Софи́я (Sofíja), Polish Zofia, etc. Doublet of Sofia. ==== Proper noun ==== Sophia A female given name from Ancient Greek. 1998 Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet, A.A.Knopf Inc., page 2: Gram said, "Sophia.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /soʊˈfi.ə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Sophia, CC BY-SA 4.0.