girls:
4.6k births since 1979
#2521 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1979
#4044 (48th percentile)
The name Sapphire is the #4,044 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,560 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 47.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,521 (55.9% percentile) for all time with 4,560 births since 1979.
Sapphire first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979).
For girls, Sapphire reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 30.4% percentile (ranked #667) with 168 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 168 births per million (ranked 30.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sapphire ranks #692 for girls (27.0% percentile) with 151 births per million, which is 89.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sapphire".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sapphire. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Sapphire is pronounced as SA-fai-er, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SA-fire, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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