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Sapphira

#3,566 in 2025Girls' name

Sapphire

Sapphira has been given to 879 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,566 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Sapphira, 2025

1 in 77,100

Sapphira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sapphira: meaning, origin, and history

Sapphire

Ancient Greek

What Sapphira means

Sapphira means “sapphire”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sapphira is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Sapphira comes through Ancient Greek Σαπφειρη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sapphira is pronounced /səˈfaɪ.ɹə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 879 girls were recorded with the name Sapphira between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,775 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,734 in 2020 to #3,566 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,469 in 2015 to #3,566 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sapphira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,566
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sapphira 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 2025 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sapphira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sapphiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sapphira was born before 2016 — so the typical Sapphira is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
879
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (420).

Is Sapphira 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
+712
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,168
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−97
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.4%
Peak was 2018 (62)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,775
2018

Spellings of Sapphira

Sapphira is not the most common spelling — Sapphire is, with 51.6% against Sapphira's 9.0%.

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 Sapphira is used

Across 1910–2025, Sapphira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 589,750 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Sapphira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sapphira around the world

Where Sapphira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sapphira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,168
Best rank ever
#2,775
2018
Peak year
2018
62 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
879
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Sapphira

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

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Sibling names for Sapphira

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

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