Meaning not yet researched.
Saphira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 114 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,541 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,541 in 2017; #1,775 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saphira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,775 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,541.
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Saphira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 114 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,541 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 145 (2008).
In 2025, 114 US girls were named Saphira, making it the 1,775th most common girls’ name of the year, down 112 places from #1,663 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 124 girls named Saphira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,541, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 145, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saphira in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 2,346 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,219 babies named Saphira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,190 US girls were named Saphira; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 143. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saphira ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #895 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sapphire (5,048 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Safira, Saphyra and Zaphira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Egyptian and Greek. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Safira (297), Saphyra (127), Zaphira (52), Saphera (51), Saphirah (5), Saphirra (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Saphira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #895 | #1,267 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #978 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,251 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,373 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,665 | #1,251 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,774 | #2,178 |
| New York | 6 | #2,034 | #1,592 |
| California | 5 | #3,458 | #2,687 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,246 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,078 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,916 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,401 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,048 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,404 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,385 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).