Sophie

Where Sophie comes from

The dictionaries list Sophie as a given name — a female given name from French Sophie, equivalent to English Sophia of Ancient Greek origin — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #156 among girls — 83 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1966
    Sophie Marceau born
    French actress
  3. 1996
    Sophie Turner born
    British actress
  4. 2011
    Peak, #51
    4,732 babies named Sophie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The comeback
    Back to #51 after sinking to #1,638 in 1976.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French Sophie, equivalent to English Sophia of Ancient Greek origin.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.
Namesakes
  • Sophie Marceau · French actress, born 1966
  • Sophie Turner · British actress, born 1996
  • Sophie Germain · French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, 1776–1831
  • Sophie Wilmès · Belgian politician, born 1975
  • Sophie Monk · Australian actor and singer, born 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.