Saphira

girls:

2.1k births since 1996

#3742 (35th percentile)

overall:

2.1k births since 1996

#5678 (27th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Saphira is the #5,678 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,105 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 26.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,742 (34.5% percentile) for all time with 2,105 births since 1996.

Saphira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996). Birth data for Saphira is available in 24 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Saphira reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 14.6% percentile (ranked #811) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 76 births per million (ranked 14.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Saphira ranks #848 for girls (10.5% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 78.5% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saphira".

1996 2023 19962023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,105
Peak Births
145
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
1996
Peak Percentile
14.6%
Current Percentile
10.5%
Peak Rank
#811
Current Rank
#848
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Saphira

Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Saphira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 43.2% confident that Saphira is pronounced as suh-FAI-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-FEE-ruh, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.

suh-FAI-ruh (3 syllables)
43.2% confidence
S AH0 F AY1 R AH0
suh-FEE-ruh (3 syllables)
20.5% confidence
S AH0 F IY1 R AH0
sah-FIH-ruh (3 syllables)
Verified
13.6% confidence
S AA0 F IH1 R AH0
sa-FEE-ruh (3 syllables)
4.5% confidence
S AE0 F IY1 R AH0
suh-FIH-ruh (3 syllables)
4.5% confidence
S AH0 F IH1 R AH0
SA-FAI-ruh (3 syllables)
4.5% confidence
S AE1 F AY1 R AH0
SAH-fai-ruh (3 syllables)
4.5% confidence
S AA1 F AY0 R AH0
sa-FAI-ruh (3 syllables)
4.5% confidence
S AE0 F AY1 R AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 AH0 F AY1 R AH0) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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