In 2025, 86 US girls were named Zofia, making it the 2,172nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 521 places from #2,693 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 65 girls named Zofia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,952, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,809 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zofia in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 2,013 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 840 babies named Zofia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 799 US girls were named Zofia; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zofia ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #795 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sophia (439,619 babies since 1880), Sofia (186,931 babies since 1880), Sophie (138,694 babies since 1880) and Sofie (5,003 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zosia are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.