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Sophia

Girl#13 in 20246 lettersPeak 2012
1.61k
Babies in 2024
-41%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 2.85k
-4%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 19962024
5.00k3.75k2.50k1.25k0200020052010201520202024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.

About the name Sophia

Sophia is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #13 for girls born in 2024 with 1,610 babies registered in England & Wales.

Sophia reached its peak in 2012, when 2,855 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #15 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 1,610 represents 56% of the peak.

Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 46,936 girls have been officially registered with the name Sophia in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 24,355 girls were registered with the name, starting from 2,752 in 2014 and ending at 1,610 in 2024.

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