Meaning not yet researched.
Sapphire: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 233 in 2025. Its best rank was #913 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #913 in 2022; #1,058 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sapphire in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,058 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #913.
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Sapphire: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 233 girls in 2025. Peak: #913 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 301 (2022).
In 2025, 233 US girls were named Sapphire, making it the 1,058th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #1,032 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 245 girls named Sapphire in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #913, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 301. For comparison, it was #1,518 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sapphire in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 5,048 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,529 babies named Sapphire.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,260 US girls were named Sapphire; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 301. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,898 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sapphire ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #753 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saphira (2,346 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saphire, Sapphira and Sapphyre 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Saphire (923), Sapphira (879), Sapphyre (79).
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 Sapphire 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 22 | #753 | #1,734 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #770 | #1,558 |
| Florida | 21 | #794 | #2,039 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #860 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #884 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #890 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #906 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #915 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #952 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #997 | #935 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,017 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,020 | #1,069 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,027 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,042 | #1,469 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,109 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,398 | #1,350 |
| California | 15 | #1,565 | #1,472 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,744 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 233 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2024 | 245 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2023 | 264 | #977 | — | — |
| 2022 | 301 | #913 | — | — |
| 2021 | 226 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 2020 | 225 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2017 | 183 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 2015 | 149 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,160 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,706 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,874 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,526 | — | — |
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).