Saphira
Saphira was given to 114 girls in 2025, #1,775 among girls’ names; 2,346 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Saphira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saphira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saphira?
#1,775 among girls’ names, 2025
Saphira fell from #1,620 in 2015 to #1,775 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 74.5 to 70.9 per million.
145 babies in 2008, the peak
Saphira peaked in 2008, when 145 girls were given it, #1,582 among girls’ names. The 114 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,775 | 70.9 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,663 | 76.5 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,917 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,707 | 75.0 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,758 | 71.3 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,906 | 62.5 |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,647 | 76.9 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,738 | 70.0 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,541 | 82.8 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,796 | 65.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,620 | 74.5 |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,756 | 66.6 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,753 | 67.2 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,645 | 74.4 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,852 | 62.0 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,975 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,753 | 68.0 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,582 | 76.7 |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,693 | 67.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,241 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,071 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,910 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,394 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,042 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,395 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,377 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saphira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saphira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saphira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saphira, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,346 Americans ever recorded as Saphira. The median Saphira alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,439 people named Saphira (1,439 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,677 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 774 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Saphira born?
The states with the most babies named Saphira are Texas, Florida and Washington, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,774 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,665 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 7 | #895 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,250 | 0.4× |
| New York | 6 | #2,034 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,373 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,458 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #978 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Saphira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,883 babies since 1880, Saphira is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 170 babies (67%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Saphira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Saphira and names like it
- Compare Saphira and SaphireBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaphira peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saphira since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Saphira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saphira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.