Saphira
#1,769 for girls in 2025, 114 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 143 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,346since 1996
Saphira over time
Rank among girls' names. Saphira has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,769 | 114 |
| 2024 | #1,657 | 124 |
| 2023 | #1,903 | 104 |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 |
| 2021 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2020 | #1,893 | 101 |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 129 |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 |
| 2017 | #1,534 | 143 |
| 2016 | #1,785 | 116 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 |
| 2014 | #1,746 | 119 |
| 2013 | #1,744 | 118 |
| 2012 | #1,639 | 131 |
| 2011 | #1,840 | 109 |
| 2010 | #1,959 | 102 |
| 2009 | #1,742 | 125 |
| 2008 | #1,573 | 145 |
| 2007 | #1,689 | 130 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
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| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
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| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Saphira! It came in at #13,518, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–2001, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Saphira is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#377 · 1 in 1,263
- Wisconsin#826 · 1 in 4,516
- Indiana#841 · 1 in 4,300
- Massachusetts#845 · 1 in 5,040
- Missouri#940 · 1 in 5,194
Best ever in a state: #321 in New Mexico, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #377 | 5 | 1 in 1,263 |
| Wisconsin | #826 | 5 | 1 in 4,516 |
| Indiana | #841 | 7 | 1 in 4,300 |
| Massachusetts | #845 | 5 | 1 in 5,040 |
| Missouri | #940 | 5 | 1 in 5,194 |
| Washington | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 6,213 |
| Michigan | #1,143 | 6 | 1 in 6,878 |
| North Carolina | #1,242 | 6 | 1 in 7,564 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,258 | 6 | 1 in 8,524 |
| New York | #1,278 | 11 | 1 in 8,000 |
| Florida | #1,380 | 9 | 1 in 9,551 |
| Texas | #1,990 | 10 | 1 in 15,987 |
| California | #2,256 | 9 | 1 in 21,750 |
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See more about Saphira
- 112 spots since 2024 (#1,657 → #1,769)
- 124 spots since 2020 (#1,893 → #1,769)
- 160 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #1,769)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2017 at #1,534 (143 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,073 girls born in 2017 were named Saphira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 52.0% of all girls named Saphira (1,219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 10 | #13,518 (1996) | #13,965 |
| 2000s | 434 | #1,573 (2008) | #8,890 |
| 2010s | 1,219 | #1,534 (2017) | #1,723 |
| 2020s | 683 | #1,657 (2024) | #1,777 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Saphira in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 12,073 of them was named Saphira, which outranked 91.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,529Maritza144
- #1,529Marlie144
- #1,529Silvia144
- #1,534Saphira143
- #1,534Alessa143
- #1,534Ayvah143
- #1,534Farah143
- #1,545Brighton142
- #1,545Chevelle142
- #1,545Kaci142
Tied with 10 names at #1,534; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.