Sofya

Where Sofya comes from

The dictionaries list Sofya as a given name — alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2001
    First appearance
    #12,056 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #5,728
    23 babies named Sofya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,481.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Sofya hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.