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Sapphire

#1,058 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

Sapphire has been given to 5,048 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,058 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 301 recorded.

Babies named Sapphire, 2025

1 in 14,200

Sapphire over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sapphire: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

English

What Sapphire means

Sapphire is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sapphire is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,048 girls were recorded with the name Sapphire between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 301 in 2022; its best national rank was #913 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,088 in 2020 to #1,058 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,518 in 2015 to #1,058 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 Sapphire?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,200
233 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,900
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,058
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,863 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sapphire 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,863 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sapphire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sapphires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sapphire was born before 2014 — so the typical Sapphire is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,048
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (1,529).

Is Sapphire 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
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+460
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.4%
Peak was 2022 (301)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#913
2022

Spellings of Sapphire

Sapphire is the most-used spelling, taking 54.9% of the 9,196 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Sapphire is used

Across 2016–2025, Sapphire was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 7,593 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

324 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 4,167
  2. 2New York1 in 4,545
  3. 3Ohio1 in 4,545
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 4,762
  5. 5Michigan1 in 5,263
  6. 6Florida1 in 5,556
  7. 7Missouri1 in 5,556
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 5,556

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.

Sapphire around the world

Where Sapphire 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
    1996–2025
    #642
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sapphire

People whose public names include Sapphire, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sapphire in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sapphire. Linked forms have their own page here.

SaphiraSaphireSapphira

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sapphire by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,058
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 30
Best rank ever
#913
2022
Peak year
2022
301 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,048
Count in 2025
233

Names similar to Sapphire

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

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Names with a curve like Sapphire

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sapphire, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sapphire

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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