Meaning and history
Russian diminutive of Sophia, this name appears as a character in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1869; English translation 1886).
20062006: 255 births, rank #1,008
2007: 223 births, rank #1,147
2008: 201 births, rank #1,250
2009: 221 births, rank #1,146
2010: 194 births, rank #1,241
20112011: 170 births, rank #1,354
2012: 195 births, rank #1,243
2013: 190 births, rank #1,254
2014: 161 births, rank #1,416
2015: 164 births, rank #1,411
20162016: 137 births, rank #1,605
2017: 135 births, rank #1,607
2018: 123 births, rank #1,685
2019: 99 births, rank #1,961
2020: 110 births, rank #1,792
20212021: 99 births, rank #1,971
2022: 114 births, rank #1,793
2023: 107 births, rank #1,865
2024: 104 births, rank #1,913
20252025: 100 births, rank #1,927
Sonya moved from #907 to #976 for girls between 2002 and 2003. Its highest annual birth count came in 1967, with 2,980 births.