Sofie

Where Sofie comes from

Sofie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,416 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Sofie Junge Pedersen born
    Danish association football player
  3. 2002
    Sofie Dokter born
    Dutch athlete
  4. 2012
    Peak, #994
    254 babies named Sofie — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sofie Junge Pedersen · Danish association football player, born 1992
  • Sofie Dokter · Dutch athlete, born 2002
  • Sofie Petersen · Greenlandic bishop, born 1955
  • Sofie Svava · Danish association football player, born 2000
  • Sofie Castenschiold · Danish tennis player, 1882–1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.