Sapphire
loc · Latin script
Meaning: English gemstone name; from Greek sappheiros
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sapphire is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English gemstone name; from Greek sappheiros
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sapphire, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sapphire counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.8K | Sapphire | 191 |
| AU Australia | — | 3 | Sapphire | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4 | Sapphire | 135 |
| FI Finland | — | 20 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 12 | — | 48 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 11 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sapphire is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the word for the gemstone (via Old French and Latin from Greek sappheiros, probably ultimately of Semitic origin). The Greek term seems to have originally denoted lapis lazuli, but was later transferred to the transparent blue stone. As a given name this is typically bestowed on a girl with deep blue eyes.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of sapphīrus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sapphire Cooperb. 1968NZNew Zealand field hockey player
- Sapphire Gainorb. 1985Danish actress
- Sapphire Eliab. 1987GBBritish actress
- Sapphire Boyceb. 1993AUAustralian actress
- Elsa Jeanb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,893 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 301 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 264 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 245 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 233 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #26,614 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #5,893 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 11 | #21,186 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sapphire mean, and where does it come from?
- English gemstone name; from Greek sappheiros Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Sapphire have the most bearers?
- Sapphire is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled sapphire.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sapphireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sapphire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.