Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sofiia isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sofiia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 0 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,806 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,806 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sofiia’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sofiia
- Sofia AndrukhovychUkrainian writer/translatorborn 1982
- Sofiya LyskunFormer Ukrainian, now Russian diverborn 2002
- Sofiia YaremchukUkrainian long-distance runnerborn 1994
- Sofiia FedynaUkrainian politicianborn 1984
- Sofiia HolichenkoUkrainian figure skaterborn 2004
- Sofiia DovhalUkrainian-Polish ice dancer (born 2006)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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