The 2,000-Year-Old Baby Name That Just Won’t Quit the Top 5

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Sophia has almost no age ceiling. It works on a toddler, a teenager, a college student, and a sixty-year-old. The formal version is professional enough for any context. The diminutive Sophie carries warmth without being infantilizing. Sofia adds a cosmopolitan quality.

Sophia has not dated its bearers the way Jennifer or Brittany dated theirs. A 2015 survey of 49 countries, reported by MercoPress, found that Sophia or its variants topped the naming charts in nine of

them, a level of global penetration no genuinely rare name could achieve.

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