Is Sapphira usable …

[Dazedandbemused0]

… considering the unfortunate biblical link? (Sapphira and her husband were struck down by God for lying about money.) We are Christians if it’s relevant so not sure if that makes it worse 🤦‍♀️ Just such a beautiful sounding name with an otherwise nice meaning.

I could've written this post! I've also thought the exact same thing. It's a beautiful name but I'm also a Christian so the biblical connotation is a bit too unfortunate for me 😬 Also now others have mentioned Vauxhall Zafira I can't unhear it.

And yet David such a popular name but he was a pretty dubious character in the Old Testament.

My reaction would be 'what, as in Ananias?!' I'm afraid.

There are some biblical names such as David which, yes, were characters who did some pretty dubious stuff, but his story is given much more fully and there are good bits too, so the association isn't as strong. (Also it's so common that the biblical link isn't necessarily what people think of first).

But where someone is only mentioned once, or only in one context, and for something dodgy, the association is much harder to shake off. Which is a shame when the name is beautiful.

<mourns the fact that Jezebel is not really an option>

Vauxhall. I know a Sapphire though, and I’ve always thought that was a very pretty name.

I think Sapphire is nicer

I wouldn’t have made the biblical link but I would (unfortunately) think it sounds like a stripper name

I know the story, but I think of it as the AnaniasandSapphira story. I don't think I'd connect either Ananias or Sapphira as stand alone names to the story.