Sapphire

[Babyhasnoname]

I know it's not the most popular but is it unusable?

My thoughts exactly 😃

Completely agree with all of this!

Wow, lots of MN snobbery in this thread. Stripper name, looks better with an a? God, listen to yourselves.

What do you think of Safiya then? Seems elegant to me but is Sapphire with a different emphasis. The associations and judgments re chavvy/posh are rather arbitrary.

@TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin ,they are different names.

I’ve never heard the name Safiya, but it has a nice ring to it

Yes - but the sound is very close

I LOVE!! Seraphina

Agree.

I don't think it's about fairness. It's the same with childish names that infantilise adults whether they're male or female. But it's worse for women as we already have to contend with the patriarchy, without adding to it with a lightweight frilly name.

A name such as Sapphire will inevitably evoke - in some men, not all - ideas of porn or strippers.

As another poster said, it does sound a lot like Sophia, so that'd be a good compromise.

Why on earth not?

My daughter is called Sapphire she will be 2 in December, It is a lovely name it wasn't my choice it was her Dad's but I'm glad I named her Sapphire, I've never associated the name with a stripper and people surely ain't going to think that when they see a child with that name (well I should hope not anyway). People use the names of Ruby, Pearl etc so why not Sapphire.

People use the names of Ruby, Pearl etc so why not Sapphire.
Because Ruby and Pearl have been in use for a 100 yrs or more.
Why not Garnet, Amethyst, Diamond, Agate or Turquoise?

I do like it but be aware of Sapphic as a close word. It doesn’t read as a stripper name to me.

Sorry - I also think it sounds like a stripper name- Safiya/ Safia is lovely tho - I know a beautiful Safia

It’s a no from me

We had a local trans person called this who turned out to be a paedophile.

I don’t get this logic. Surely she’d be just as attractive if she was called something else?!

Joanna Lumley is an actor who was paid to play Sapphire. She's also been Fanny, Marjorie, Gillian, Ermintrude, Meghan, Patsy, ...

I also know a Sapphira and think that's close and lovely as a name. I do like Saffron too.

It’s not my usual style but I think it’s lovely. Sapphira is nice too. I also like Emerald.

Sounds a bit hard to pull off. I always think Sapphire , Emerald etc are hard to carry off and you’d need to be beautiful? Or a stripper…

I don't like it I think it's a bit naff.

This

The baristas in the last Costa I went to were called Sapphire and Trinity. I thought “what lovely names” - was going to tell them that but I didn’t want to be weird!