How popular is “Sofia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sofia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sofia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sofia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sofia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sofia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sofia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sofia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1881	6	0.000031138	6		100%
1886	10	0.000039167	10		100%
1887	5	0.000020211	5		100%
1888	12	0.00004007	12		100%
1889	12	0.00004153	12		100%
1890	8	0.000026543	8		100%
1891	14	0.000048836	14		100%
1892	15	0.00004486	15		100%
1893	10	0.000030748	10		100%
1894	7	0.000020668	7		100%
1895	12	0.000034186	12		100%
1896	11	0.000030771	11		100%
1897	5	0.000014411	5		100%
1898	21	0.000055052	21		100%
1899	10	0.000029478	10		100%
1900	17	0.000037756	17		100%
1901	14	0.000040484	14		100%
1902	12	0.000031029	12		100%
1903	11	0.000028856	11		100%
1904	11	0.000027262	11		100%
1905	9	0.00002123	9		100%
1906	19	0.000044346	19		100%
1907	17	0.000036529	17		100%
1908	18	0.000036836	18		100%
1909	38	0.000074331	38		100%
1910	37	0.000062636	37		100%
1911	33	0.00005122	33		100%
1912	32	0.000032387	32		100%
1913	42	0.000036936	42		100%
1914	38	0.00002683	38		100%
1915	44	0.000024012	44		100%
1916	52	0.000026881	52		100%
1917	58	0.000028902	58		100%
1918	44	0.000020266	44		100%
1919	49	0.00002322	49		100%
1920	60	0.000026518	60		100%
1921	64	0.000027415	64		100%
1922	57	0.0000249	57		100%
1923	61	0.000026493	61		100%
1924	68	0.000028552	68		100%
1925	76	0.000032572	76		100%
1926	47	0.000020471	47		100%
1927	64	0.000027594	64		100%
1928	71	0.000031403	71		100%
1929	60	0.00002737	60		100%
1930	78	0.000035083	78		100%
1931	60	0.000028512	60		100%
1932	37	0.000017525	37		100%
1933	47	0.000023506	47		100%
1934	35	0.000016853	35		100%
1935	49	0.000023446	49		100%
1936	43	0.000020697	43		100%
1937	23	0.000010795	23		100%
1938	39	0.000017627	39		100%
1939	43	0.000019515	43		100%
1940	46	0.000019977	46		100%
1941	31	0.000012724	31		100%
1942	24	0.000008785	24		100%
1943	39	0.000013817	39		100%
1944	36	0.000013383	36		100%
1945	33	0.000012439	33		100%
1946	35	0.000010954	35		100%
1947	51	0.000014158	51		100%
1948	39	0.000011296	39		100%
1949	46	0.0000132	46		100%
1950	55	0.000015699	55		100%
1951	45	0.000012216	45		100%
1952	38	0.000010005	38		100%
1953	48	0.000012456	48		100%
1954	51	0.000012812	51		100%
1955	54	0.000013449	54		100%
1956	44	0.000010672	44		100%
1957	56	0.000013327	56		100%
1958	60	0.000014514	60		100%
1959	64	0.000015392	64		100%
1960	69	0.000016611	69		100%
1961	67	0.000016175	67		100%
1962	78	0.000019329	78		100%
1963	84	0.000021222	84		100%
1964	92	0.000023665	92		100%
1965	90	0.000024825	90		100%
1966	95	0.000027333	95		100%
1967	104	0.000030634	104		100%
1968	90	0.00002664	90		100%
1969	129	0.000037119	129		100%
1970	126	0.000034937	126		100%
1971	158	0.000046033	158		100%
1972	132	0.000041998	132		100%
1973	139	0.000046074	139		100%
1974	149	0.000049013	144	5	93%
1975	157	0.000051997	157		100%
1976	160	0.00005273	160		100%
1977	190	0.000059814	190		100%
1978	177	0.000055768	177		100%
1979	194	0.000058311	194		100%
1980	192	0.000055741	192		100%
1981	267	0.000077182	267		100%
1982	240	0.000068416	240		100%
1983	262	0.00007565	262		100%
1984	252	0.000072232	252		100%
1985	264	0.000073968	264		100%
1986	245	0.000068877	245		100%
1987	315	0.000087364	315		100%
1988	282	0.000076318	282		100%
1989	330	0.000085838	322	8	95%
1990	349	0.000088299	349		100%
1991	450	0.000115525	450		100%
1992	453	0.00011793	453		100%
1993	559	0.000148265	559		100%
1994	510	0.000137183	510		100%
1995	607	0.000165749	607		100%
1996	767	0.000210299	767		100%
1997	1183	0.000326277	1183		100%
1998	1346	0.000365939	1346		100%
1999	1609	0.000435587	1604	5	99%
2000	2094	0.000553982	2094		100%
2001	2288	0.000611211	2288		100%
2002	3061	0.000818823	3061		100%
2003	3488	0.000917335	3488		100%
2004	4491	0.00117537	4474	17	99%
2005	5168	0.001344137	5162	6	100%
2006	5091	0.001286844	5082	9	100%
2007	6057	0.001515128	6049	8	100%
2008	5992	0.001524424	5985	7	100%
2009	5696	0.001491031	5696		100%
2010	6335	0.001714136	6328	7	100%
2011	7331	0.002004215	7331		100%
2012	7843	0.002144439	7837	6	100%
2013	9179	0.002517784	9169	10	100%
2014	9620	0.002595527	9611	9	100%
2015	9708	0.002623137	9699	9	100%
2016	9185	0.002503613	9177	8	100%
2017	8182	0.002287907	8175	7	100%
2018	7671	0.002181805	7663	8	100%
2019	7415	0.002136313	7401	14	100%
2020	6995	0.00209395	6987	8	100%
2021	6986	0.002062015	6980	6	100%
2022	7288	0.002154215	7280	8	100%
2023	7673	0.00231729	7665	8	100%
2024	8099	0.002433227	8094	5	100%

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