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How popular is the name Sapphire?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sapphires are alive today.
Sapphire (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 642nd in 2025 with 60 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2013, when 148 babies were given the name, the 317th most popular that year. It has declined since 2013; the 2025 figure is roughly 41% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Sapphire you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Sapphires born in England and Wales are between 9 and 24, and there are at least 3,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sapphire - on average, only one in every 102 such rooms contains a Sapphire.
How many babies are named Sapphire each year?
Where does Sapphire rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sapphire most popular?
Sapphire peaked in 2013, when 148 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Sapphire?
At least 3,100 people named Sapphire born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sapphire?
Most living Sapphires are between 9 and 24; the most common age is about 12.
Is Sapphire becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2013 peak.