Sophie
886
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 7.09k
-6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sophie
Sophie peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (7,087 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 886 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sophie reached its peak in 1996, when 7,087 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 886 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 103,803 girls have been officially registered with the name Sophie in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 19,893 girls were registered with the name, starting from 2,905 in 2014 and ending at 886 in 2024.