Sofia

The name derives from the ancient Greek sophia. Astronomers named a main-belt asteroid Sofia in 1885, four years after the spelling first appeared in American birth records. The spelling lingered quietly for a century while the ph variant drew nearly all the volume. A rapid climb began in the late 1990s, carrying it to a peak in 2015.

A Sofia tends to be pictured carrying a sticker-covered stainless steel thermos across a middle school courtyard. The name reads as tidy, modern, and thoroughly grounded in the twenty-first century. With an estimated average age of fourteen, nearly ninety-five percent of living bearers belong to Generation Z or Generation Alpha. It suggests a backpack containing precisely three color-coded notebooks and zero loose paper. The name belongs to an era that has never heard a dial tone.