Sapphire - chavvy or posh?

[ThePartyArtist]

Debating the name Sapphire with a friend, she puts it firmly in the 'Chardonnay' camp and I consider it posh, more akin to Cordelia or Jacinta. What do you think?

[Sisi13]

Didn't Martin Lewis call his daughter Sapphire.

[Sisi13]

Just googled it. He did! He's posh.

[Bluepetra]

Topaz, there's another similar one.

[TheCraicDealer]

I know an Emerald. If you called her posh she'd punch you in the tit.

[HellKitty]

What about Samphire? That's quite posh. In fish eating circles..

[Marcipex]

I know a Sapphira, I'd say they were aspirational rather than posh.
However, most people mishear it as Sophia anyway. Other children call her Sophy.

[BlackberryandNettle]

Sapphira, nick name Sapphie - could be posh?

[SirChenjin]

Sapphira - like the Vauxhall?

[PatriciaHolm]

If you'd read Billionaire Boy you wouldn't be asking...(it's not flattering...)

[Koalafications]

SirChenjin

[TheMasterNotMargarita]

I know a dog called Sapphire.


Nice dog though.

[cocacola1006]

See I would say it was swinging towards the posh but I'm clearly a minority. Maybe Saphira or Sephy I'm not sure what else is similar but with a different perception. What did you decide?!

[Hakluyt]

I am very posh indeed. Sapphire is not a posh name. Neither is Saphira or Saphie. Honestly. They are what Hyacinth Bucket thinks is posh.

[reuset]

I am very posh indeed. Sapphire is not a posh name. Neither is Saphira or Saphie. Honestly. They are what Hyacinth Bucket thinks is posh.

True!

[Teacuptravells]

Saffron nn Saffy might hit the biill but be more arty middle/class/posh than Sapphire.

[OVienna]

Please, I beg you OP, you are Kate Middleton aren't you?!

[CumbrianExile]

Pretty unanimous op. But I would also consider Jacinta chavvy and you think its posh so what do I know!

[ilovemargaretatwood8931]

I think it's a beautiful name!

Lots of people probably think it's common/ chavvy (can't stand that word), I think they are mean spirited!

[Elizabethtailored]

Are you sure you have not misheard and is SophiA? Pronounced So - fi (to rhyme with tie) - a??

[Stitchintime1]

Despite being a jewel name, it does have different socio-economic connotations to Ruby or Pearl. So does Diamond. Not sure why.

[Hakluyt]

It's odd, isn't it? Ruby and Pearl are now completely different socioeconomic groups to Diamond and Sapphire. But not long ago, Ruby and Pearl were definitely kitchen maids with their friend Beryl. Diamond and Sapphire have always been what Ruby and Pearl called themselves when they became chorus girls.........

[ancientbuchanan]

Sapphira is at least biblicaL. There is an unfortunate story: she and her husband Ananias lied and came to a Bad End.

I've always thought that Emerald was a social climber's name and was delighted to be proved right when I discovered that Emerald Cunard had chosen it as she didn't like her original one.

I'm sorry, I still think of Ruby and Pearl and Beryl in those terms, even though I know people with those names who are def. not house maids. Ellen also. Elsie on the edge.

[Stitchintime1]

Not sure where Topaz fits in . I think I once had a pony and doll set and the horse was called Topaz.

[Stitchintime1]

Opal?

[ancientbuchanan]

Soph-I- a,
Mar-I- a.
The ee sound was foreign and suspect in my youth. I went to a school with a lot of sophy/sophies with handles and they were all Soph-I- a.


My granny and my other granny's mates were Mar-I-as.

But it was never Victor I a....