Sophiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- so-FEE-ya
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Sophiya is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “wisdom”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Sophiya mean?
Greek: spelling of Sofiya, itself a spelling of Sofia
“wisdom”
A spelling of Sophia, Greek for wisdom, matching the usual transliteration from Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.
Meaning borrowed from Sofiya.
Is Sophiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Sophiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sophiya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 8 girls.
Sophiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 2 | #7,640 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 8 | #2,406 |
How popular is Sophiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sophiya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Sophiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 56 girls in the US were given Sophiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,426, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Sofiya 51
- Sophiya 5
Sophiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
Nicknames for Sophiya
Names like Sophiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Anaya, Haniya, Inaya, Liyana, Safiya, Syeda, Pippa, Sienna, Amaya, Dua, Zoya
Other spellings of Sophiya
Names related to Sophiya
Sophia, Sophie, Saphia, Sophy, Sophea, Sophi, Sophya, Sofhia
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sophiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sophiya, updated 20 October 2026.