Sapphire Girl
How popular is Sapphire?
#1,057 girl name in 2025
233 baby girls were named Sapphire in the US in 2025, making it the 1057th most popular girl name.
Sapphire popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,057 for girls (▼ 30 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 233 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+56% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,513 in 2015, #1,085 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (301 girls) |
| Highest rank | #910 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1979 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sapphire counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sapphire family of names ranked #914 for girls in 2025 (#919 the year before), with 238 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sapphire | 233 | 98% |
| Sapphyre | 5 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sapphire is most popular
Babies named Sapphire per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Sapphire by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1980s | 198 | #2,364 |
| 1990s | 878 | #1,456 |
| 2000s | 944 | #1,792 |
| 2010s | 1,529 | #1,149 |
| 2020s | 1,494 | #910 |
Girl names about as popular as Sapphire
Questions
- Is Sapphire a boy or girl name?
- Sapphire is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sapphire were girls.
- How popular is the name Sapphire?
- 233 baby girls were named Sapphire in the US in 2025, making it the 1057th most popular girl name.
- When was Sapphire most popular?
- Sapphire peaked in 2022, when 301 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #910 in 2022.
- How many people are named Sapphire?
- 5,048 babies have been named Sapphire in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,008 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Sapphire most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sapphire was most common in Ohio, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.