Sapphyre

#16,850 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Sapphyre has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #16,850 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Sapphyre, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sapphyre over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Sapphyre?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,850
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sapphyre 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sapphyre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sapphyres were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
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Choose a decade

2010s — 65.8% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Sapphyre 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,811
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2008 (9)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,235
2019

Spellings of Sapphyre

Sapphyre is not the most common spelling — Sapphire is, with 72.9% against Sapphyre's 1.1%.

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.

Sapphyre by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,235
2019
Peak year
2008
9 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sapphyre

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

Sibling names for Sapphyre

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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