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It's catching on more where I live (FL) just recently. In the NICU where I work, we've recently had 2 Sophies, a Sophia, a Sofia, and one of the nurses is due soon and is naming her daughter Sophia. It's a gorgeous name, but getting up there with Anna and Isabella in my book--beautiful and classic but OVERKILL.

Yes, it is a very popular name. I personally know 4 little ones named Sophia (some nn'ed Sophie.)

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However, popularity is not a turn-off for me. If you've loved a name for so long, I think it would actually be more difficult not to name the child that! You'll be at the playground and see a lot of Sophias, but everytime they are called, you'll adore that name all over again.

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I loved the name Haley since I was a child. Despite the popularity of the name, I used it because I adored it.

I was just at the Whole Foods the other day and some mother was cooing to her toddler Sophia about organic cereal. In my area, its a name I see a lot in birth announcements, although I don't yet personally know a Sophia.

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DH is really pushing the name, but I'm holding out for the popularity reason, as well.

Sure it can be used. I don't know why popularity is such a big issue when you love a name. If you really love it, I would use it.

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It is popular here in Australia, but for a good reason. It's a beautiful name :)

If you do use it spell it Sofia & don't call her Sophie / Sopfie. Most I know are spelled Sophia & called Sophie / Sopfie. Sofia was my name in German class, before it was popular

I've heard of its popularity

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My brother and his wife planned to use Sophia Grace (Wisdom and Grace), but my sister-in-law thinks its too popular. I'm thinking to my niece and nephew's school, and can't think of any. It might be a regional thing, so check the stats in your region.

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Siri

I know two Sophie(s) and one Zsofia. I quite like it though I wouldn't use it, I've got too many others I like. I think it can be used.

The fact that it's so popular would usually turn me off this name but I've always loved it.

Well where I live ( Kent England ) Sophia isnt that common, its Sophie that I hear all the time

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If you like a name and your husband likes it ( A rare event :0 ) dont put it to one side just because it seems popular
Two things to think on,
1)I called my children Catherine and James two supposedly very common names however I know of no other children in their age group ( under 7 ) with these names.
2)My freind Julie grew up as Julie G and she swore she would find a unusual pretty name if ever she had a daughter, this was about seventeen years ago and she chose the name Chloe, a name which half her family didnt even know how to spell and which her mother in law said was old fashioned, that year shortly after little Chloe was born the name seemed to explode in popularity
I personally know of fourteen Chloe's aged between one year and sixteen years Julie's daughter ended up as Chloe D with Chloe B in her year and Three Chloes in the year below her in primary school :)
What I am trying to say in a rather long winded way is that you can never tell which names are going to be popular in the area you live in so just use the names you truely love be they Sophia, Freya, Sammie Jo or Phred :)

Sophia is a lovely name, and I don't know any children (or adults) named Sophia, nor do I see it often in any birth announcements. Even if it is/will become popular, what matters is that you and your SO like it.

I love it, and I figure half the Sophias go by Sophie so that should cut the popularity in half.