Given name & surname
Sapir
“resembling a sapphire”
Sapir is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a sapphire.”
Original Hebrewספיר
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a sapphire.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sapir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 0 boys · 76 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 151 as a first name in 2020; 450 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sapir’s family of names
Sapir has a related form in Safir. Sapir has a related form in Safiros. Sapir has a related form in Safyre.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Safirvariant
- Saphyrevariant
- Saphirvariant
- Sappirlikely variant
- Shapirovariant · English
- Safyrevariant
- Sapyrevariant
- Sapfyrvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sapir
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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