girls:
5 births since 2022
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2023
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
10 births since 2022
#7729 (0th percentile)
The name Saphir is the #7,729 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10 recorded births since 2022. This represents the 0.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2022. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2023.
Saphir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2022 (2022 for girls and 2023 for boys).
The name Saphir is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Saphir were boys.
For boys, Saphir reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #911) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Saphir is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #911 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
For girls, Saphir reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #958) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile).
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saphir".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Saphir", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Safir" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Safir..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Saphir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.1% confident that Saphir is pronounced as SA-fihr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SA-fer, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE1 F IH0 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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