Entry № 9174 · Greek origin

Sapphire Sapphire — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"A blue gemstone"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "a blue gemstone".

Sapphire is the deep blue gem and Septembers birthstone, a symbol of wisdom and the clear night sky.

Cool and luminous, it is a jewel name of real depth.

A blue gemstone — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Sapphire

Transliteration: Sapphire
Pronunciation: / ˈsa.faɪ.ɚ /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Sapphire stands.

Sapphire does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Sapphires before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Sapphire.

Numerology

The number behind Sapphire.

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sapphire reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.