# Sophie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sophie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsəʊfi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 138,694 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 117 / 138,577 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 104,514, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4,732 | 51 |
| 2012 | 4,581 | 52 |
| 2013 | 3,753 | 76 |
| 2014 | 3,394 | 91 |
| 2015 | 2,953 | 104 |
| 2016 | 2,875 | 109 |
| 2017 | 2,837 | 106 |
| 2018 | 2,948 | 98 |
| 2019 | 3,186 | 85 |
| 2020 | 3,315 | 75 |
| 2021 | 3,331 | 76 |
| 2022 | 3,524 | 63 |
| 2023 | 3,592 | 60 |
| 2024 | 3,583 | 60 |
| 2025 | 3,984 | 55 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 7 | 3,504 |
| 1918 | 8 | 3,332 |
| 1920 | 5 | 4,894 |
| 1921 | 7 | 3,820 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,867 |
| 1924 | 6 | 4,282 |
| 1927 | 6 | 4,154 |
| 1930 | 6 | 3,949 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,837 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,797 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,821 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,992 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,665 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,933 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,052 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,923 | 6 |
| 2012 | 3,496 | 9 |
| 2013 | 3,013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 2,905 | 10 |
| 2015 | 2,779 | 11 |
| 2016 | 2,505 | 14 |
| 2017 | 2,129 | 16 |
| 2018 | 2,007 | 17 |
| 2019 | 1,727 | 23 |
| 2020 | 1,525 | 26 |
| 2021 | 1,375 | 30 |
| 2022 | 1,115 | 39 |
| 2023 | 940 | 51 |
| 2024 | 886 | 50 |
| 2025 | 724 | 63 |

## People named Sophie

- Sophie Marceau, French actress
- Sophie Turner, British actress (born 1996)
- Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
- Sophie Wilmès, Belgian politician
- Sophie Monk, Australian actor and singer
- Sophie Kinsella, British writer (1969–2025)
- Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, British Royal, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
- Sophie Blanchard, French aeronaut
- Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Bavarian princess (1805–1872)
- Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur, French writer of Russian birth (1799–1874)
- Sophie, British singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ (1986–2021)
- Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.