How popular is “Sophie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sophie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sophie” 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 “Sophie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sophie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sophie” 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
1880	83	0.000411943	83		100%
1881	78	0.000404799	78		100%
1882	110	0.00049654	110		100%
1883	103	0.000474773	103		100%
1884	120	0.000492892	120		100%
1885	125	0.000518987	125		100%
1886	156	0.000611008	156		100%
1887	149	0.000602283	149		100%
1888	171	0.000571001	171		100%
1889	172	0.000595267	172		100%
1890	206	0.000683475	206		100%
1891	203	0.000708124	203		100%
1892	203	0.000607105	203		100%
1893	235	0.000722581	235		100%
1894	234	0.000690897	234		100%
1895	240	0.000683722	240		100%
1896	258	0.000721711	258		100%
1897	308	0.000887718	308		100%
1898	259	0.000678979	259		100%
1899	278	0.000819493	278		100%
1900	338	0.000750681	338		100%
1901	324	0.000936925	324		100%
1902	279	0.000721428	279		100%
1903	311	0.000815845	311		100%
1904	359	0.000889748	359		100%
1905	374	0.000882238	374		100%
1906	384	0.000896252	384		100%
1907	456	0.000979823	451	5	98%
1908	523	0.001070298	523		100%
1909	496	0.00097022	496		100%
1910	621	0.001051276	621		100%
1911	671	0.001041476	671		100%
1912	989	0.001000949	989		100%
1913	1122	0.000986712	1122		100%
1914	1590	0.001122609	1584	6	99%
1915	2112	0.00115257	2112		100%
1916	2205	0.001139878	2198	7	99%
1917	2389	0.001190482	2382	7	99%
1918	2308	0.00106305	2300	8	99%
1919	2200	0.001042533	2200		100%
1920	1970	0.000870663	1965	5	99%
1921	1872	0.000801883	1865	7	99%
1922	1587	0.000693269	1582	5	99%
1923	1490	0.000647128	1490		100%
1924	1378	0.0005786	1372	6	99%
1925	1102	0.000472292	1102		100%
1926	953	0.000415087	953		100%
1927	889	0.000383296	883	6	99%
1928	708	0.000313144	708		100%
1929	632	0.0002883	632		100%
1930	530	0.000238386	524	6	98%
1931	425	0.000201959	425		100%
1932	378	0.000179037	378		100%
1933	300	0.000150041	300		100%
1934	262	0.000126155	262		100%
1935	251	0.000120101	251		100%
1936	198	0.000095303	198		100%
1937	204	0.000095745	204		100%
1938	178	0.000080449	178		100%
1939	150	0.000068075	150		100%
1940	170	0.000073827	170		100%
1941	174	0.000071416	174		100%
1942	145	0.000053078	145		100%
1943	119	0.00004216	119		100%
1944	103	0.000038289	103		100%
1945	100	0.000037694	100		100%
1946	110	0.000034425	110		100%
1947	120	0.000033312	120		100%
1948	114	0.000033019	114		100%
1949	131	0.000037592	131		100%
1950	116	0.000033111	116		100%
1951	128	0.000034747	128		100%
1952	116	0.000030542	116		100%
1953	104	0.000026987	104		100%
1954	105	0.000026377	105		100%
1955	106	0.0000264	106		100%
1956	99	0.000024011	99		100%
1957	85	0.000020228	85		100%
1958	102	0.000024674	102		100%
1959	88	0.000021164	88		100%
1960	95	0.000022871	95		100%
1961	84	0.000020279	84		100%
1962	94	0.000023294	94		100%
1963	107	0.000027032	107		100%
1964	88	0.000022636	88		100%
1965	101	0.000027859	101		100%
1966	92	0.00002647	92		100%
1967	97	0.000028572	97		100%
1968	89	0.000026344	89		100%
1969	83	0.000023883	83		100%
1970	83	0.000023014	83		100%
1971	66	0.000019229	66		100%
1972	73	0.000023226	73		100%
1973	64	0.000021214	64		100%
1974	76	0.000025	76		100%
1975	74	0.000024508	74		100%
1976	60	0.000019774	60		100%
1977	83	0.000026129	83		100%
1978	73	0.000023	73		100%
1979	73	0.000021942	73		100%
1980	77	0.000022354	77		100%
1981	74	0.000021391	74		100%
1982	92	0.000026226	92		100%
1983	135	0.00003898	135		100%
1984	158	0.000045288	158		100%
1985	207	0.000057998	207		100%
1986	212	0.000059599	212		100%
1987	239	0.000066286	239		100%
1988	251	0.000067929	251		100%
1989	341	0.000088699	334	7	96%
1990	373	0.000094371	373		100%
1991	421	0.00010808	421		100%
1992	512	0.000133289	512		100%
1993	552	0.000146408	552		100%
1994	601	0.000161661	601		100%
1995	697	0.000190325	697		100%
1996	854	0.000234153	854		100%
1997	1081	0.000298145	1081		100%
1998	1216	0.000330596	1216		100%
1999	1685	0.000456162	1685		100%
2000	2101	0.000555834	2101		100%
2001	2173	0.00058049	2173		100%
2002	2245	0.000600542	2245		100%
2003	2231	0.000586747	2231		100%
2004	2395	0.000626812	2388	7	99%
2005	2440	0.000634616	2440		100%
2006	2784	0.000703708	2784		100%
2007	3997	0.000999829	3988	9	100%
2008	4065	0.001034176	4065		100%
2009	4267	0.001116965	4267		100%
2010	4422	0.001196513	4416	6	100%
2011	4741	0.001296137	4732	9	100%
2012	4586	0.001253908	4581	5	100%
2013	3752	0.001029167	3752		100%
2014	3394	0.000915719	3394		100%
2015	2952	0.000797641	2952		100%
2016	2875	0.000783657	2875		100%
2017	2837	0.000793301	2837		100%
2018	2948	0.000838477	2948		100%
2019	3185	0.000917621	3185		100%
2020	3315	0.000992344	3315		100%
2021	3329	0.0009826	3329		100%
2022	3521	0.001040751	3521		100%
2023	3595	0.00108571	3589	6	100%
2024	3574	0.001073757	3574		100%

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