Sapphire
- #1,057 for girls in 2025, 233 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 301 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,048since 1979
Sapphire over time
Rank among girls' names. Sapphire has never cracked the top 900 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 | #1,057 | 233 |
| 2024 | #1,027 | 245 |
| 2023 | #976 | 264 |
| 2022 | #910 | 301 |
| 2021 | #1,095 | 226 |
| 2020 | #1,085 | 225 |
| 2019 | #1,149 | 209 |
| 2018 | #1,162 | 207 |
| 2017 | #1,287 | 183 |
| 2016 | #1,394 | 167 |
| 2015 | #1,513 | 149 |
| 2014 | #1,427 | 159 |
| 2013 | #1,616 | 133 |
| 2012 | #1,663 | 128 |
| 2011 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #1,792 | 120 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #1,908 | 108 |
| 2006 | #2,069 | 95 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,030 | 90 |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 |
| 2002 | #1,897 | 93 |
| 2001 | #1,957 | 88 |
| 2000 | #1,801 | 96 |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 |
| 1998 | #1,458 | 117 |
| 1997 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 1996 | #1,711 | 88 |
| 1995 | #1,614 | 92 |
| 1994 | #1,574 | 97 |
| 1993 | #1,776 | 82 |
| 1992 | #1,894 | 74 |
| 1991 | #2,058 | 66 |
| 1990 | #2,153 | 60 |
| 1989 | #3,330 | 31 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sapphire! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Sapphire is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#729 · 1 in 3,576
- New York#731 · 1 in 3,560
- Massachusetts#761 · 1 in 4,005
- Florida#768 · 1 in 4,132
- Louisiana#776 · 1 in 3,274
Best ever in a state: #140 in South Dakota, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #729 | 13 | 1 in 3,576 |
| New York | #731 | 22 | 1 in 3,560 |
| Massachusetts | #761 | 6 | 1 in 4,005 |
| Florida | #768 | 21 | 1 in 4,132 |
| Louisiana | #776 | 5 | 1 in 3,274 |
| Colorado | #789 | 6 | 1 in 3,888 |
| Wisconsin | #791 | 5 | 1 in 4,052 |
| Illinois | #852 | 10 | 1 in 4,433 |
| Ohio | #878 | 10 | 1 in 4,727 |
| Arizona | #909 | 6 | 1 in 4,703 |
| Washington | #915 | 6 | 1 in 4,810 |
| Indiana | #916 | 6 | 1 in 4,651 |
| Pennsylvania | #927 | 9 | 1 in 5,188 |
| Michigan | #965 | 7 | 1 in 5,104 |
| Tennessee | #983 | 6 | 1 in 5,346 |
| Texas | #1,352 | 18 | 1 in 8,919 |
| California | #1,491 | 15 | 1 in 10,782 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sapphire
- 30 spots since 2024 (#1,027 → #1,057)
- 28 spots since 2020 (#1,085 → #1,057)
- Biggest jump: 185 spots in 2022
- Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2023
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2022 at #910 (301 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2022–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,449 girls born in 2022 were named Sapphire (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,898 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.3% of all girls named Sapphire (1,529) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 198 | #2,369 (1988) | #4,896 |
| 1990s | 878 | #1,458 (1998) | #1,746 |
| 2000s | 944 | #1,792 (2009) | #2,003 |
| 2010s | 1,529 | #1,149 (2019) | #1,527 |
| 2020s | 1,494 | #910 (2022) | #1,025 |
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.
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