How popular is Sophia?

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

not heard many sophia..but sophie is popular its my dd1s name

i have a Sophia 2yrs i haven't meet any others

Heard of a few and think it will become more popular. Love it.

Love the name - would have used it myself if my sister wasn't a Sophie! Not very common I don't think - I don't know of any apart from one I was at school with many moons ago.

I only know of one, and she is nearly 5.

Okay, this sounds promising and DH likes too.

Is Sophia Eloise 'too much'?

I know one who is 4.

Both really pretty names, but I don't think Sophia Eloise trips off the tongue very smoothly. Not sure if it matters as you won't say it that often, but maybe a name starting with a consonant sound would flow better?

Definitely prefer it to Sophie, which is ubiquitous now.

As for Sophia Eloise - both names are very nice, but a bit of a mouthful to say together. Having said that, if you love them, use them. People really use both as the same time.

Do you think maybe Eloise also has too many syllables?

When it comes to shorter ones my brain gets stuck on Grace and Rose and thats all it can muster.

I think it's the initial sound rather than the amount of syllables. Although I'm not suggesting it as a name, Sophia Louise flows better than Sophia Eloise....

How about

Sophia Charlotte
Sophia Beatrice
Sophia Mary
Sophia Lucy

etc

I know one, who is 2. I love the name, but agree that it doesn't sound great with Eloise (which is also a lovely name btw) - I think it's because of hte 'r' sound you have to make to join the two together, so it becomes like 'Sophiar Eloise'. As runoutofideas says, a name with a consonant at the start won't have the same effect, so Sophia Louise works better, IMO.

Here. It seems to be steadily working it's way up the charts...

Great name though.

It's lovely. Love Eloise as well.

Darn it! I do see what you are saying.

Love Eloise too though. Don't want to put another name in between Sophia and Eloise to be able to use it though so will have to come up with something else.

Answers on a postcard.....

Eloise Sophia flows nicely....

Sophia Alice?

It seems v popular round here (Herts), I have met several Sophias and Sophies all aged around 2.

Lovely name, though I prefer the Sofia spelling personally. Or how about Eloise as a first name? Lovely but nowhere near as popular.

I love the name Sophia. It's my DD's middle name, don't know any others though!

I think Runoutofideas has a good suggestion. Eloise is (I would imagine) far less commonly used than sophia. I don't know how popular Sophia is(I love it btw) but it sounds very similar to Sophie which every second baby girl seems to be called around here.