Sophie

The name derives from the Greek noun for wisdom, passing into French as a vernacular form. It gained European momentum after appearing as the heroine in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 treatise Émile. American parents registered it in modest numbers starting in 1880, but largely left it alone until the late 1990s, when two-syllable continental endings returned to favor.

The name reads as a high school junior carrying an unruled notebook and a water bottle covered in museum stickers. Because forty-seven percent of all living Sophies belong to Generation Z and another forty-four percent belong to Generation Alpha, the sound belongs almost entirely to modern classrooms. It suggests someone who was assigned The Great Gatsby in the ninth grade and had reasonable opinions about the green light. The average holder is seventeen years old, meaning her earliest memories coincide with the introduction of the iPad.