Saphire
Saphire was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,779 among girls’ names; 923 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saphire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saphire?
#8,779 among girls’ names, 2025
Saphire fell from #6,419 in 2015 to #8,779 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 7.5 per million.
51 babies in 2007, the peak
Saphire peaked in 2007, when 51 girls were given it, #3,325 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,779 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,004 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,985 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,420 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,966 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,335 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,025 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,535 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,791 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,158 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,419 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,962 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,120 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,689 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,138 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,563 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,354 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,115 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,325 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,668 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,249 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,970 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,019 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,734 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,531 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,160 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,783 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,551 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,283 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,805 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,188 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,190 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,773 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,214 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,342 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,582 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,439 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,047 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,573 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saphire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saphire has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saphire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saphire, and how old are they?
An estimated 912 Americans named Saphire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 717 people named Saphire (705 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,772 babies since 1880, Saphire is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 140 babies (8.6%), again the second 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 Saphire
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 Saphire and names like it
- Compare Saphire and SaphiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaphire peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saphire since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saphire.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saphire alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.