Entry № 9917 · Greek origin

Sophie Sophie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SO-fee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Wisdom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French/German)

A name that means "wisdom".

Sophie is the French and German form of Sophia — from the Greek sophía (σοφία), meaning "wisdom." Where Sophia is the formal full name (and currently the most popular U.S. baby girl name), Sophie is the everyday diminutive — though increasingly used independently.

Sophie has been continuously in the U.S. top 200 since the 1990s. In the United Kingdom, France, and Germany it is often in the top 20. Today in the U.S.

Wisdom — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Sophie
Transliteration
Sophie
Pronunciation
/ ˈsoʊ.fi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sophie stands.

Sophie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sophies before her.

Real people
Sophie Turner
British actress, Game of Thrones.
born 1996
Sophie Marceau
French actress.
born 1966
In fiction
Sophie
Heroine of Mamma Mia!.
1999 musical

Names connected to Sophie.

The number behind Sophie.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sophie reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.