Sapir

Girls' name

Sapphire

Sapir has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Sapir, 2022

1 in 484,000

Sapir over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sapir: meaning, origin, and history

Sapphire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sapir means

Sapir means “sapphire”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sapir is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sa.ˈpiʁ/ for Sapir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Sapir between 1993 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #10,359 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sapir?

Sapir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 484,000; 7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 234,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 335,262 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sapir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sapir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sapirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sapir was born before 2000 — so the typical Sapir is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 68.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 76; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Sapir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,359; 1993

Spellings of Sapir

Sapir is not the most common spelling — Sadie is, with 80.6% against Sapir's 0.04%.

Sadie80.6%149,681
Samira4.8%8,875
Saira2.0%3,645
Samia1.9%3,580
Sari1.8%3,372
Sahar1.3%2,453
Saphira1.3%2,346
Sania1.0%1,906

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sapir is used

Across 1910–2025, Sapir was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sapir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sapir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,359; 1993
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 76
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sapir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sapna Saphyra Saphyre Sapphyre Saphia Saphina Saphera Sapana Saphire Saprina Saphronia Sapphira Saphir Saphira Saphari Sapheria Saphirah Saphirra Sapphire

Sibling names for Sapir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton Mauro

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