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Sapphire

86 replies

Babyhasnoname · 18/07/2025 10:21

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

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PurpleChrayn · 18/08/2025 23:08

Some gem names are nice (Ruby, Pearl).

Others are strippers (Amber, Crystal, Sapphire).

Nobody knows why.

MaggieBsBoat · 18/08/2025 23:11

The only Sapphire I’ve known was a GP. NOT as stripper, even as a side hustle. Lovely name.

Emit35x · 02/09/2025 22:49

Well guess my daughter has a stripper name then.... 😂

Anon501178 · 02/09/2025 23:32

Shnuzzbucket · 18/07/2025 17:56

Isnt that a car?

Haha it does sound like 'zafira' (Vauxhall) I thought that too.
There was actually a car in the early 90s called a 'Ford Sierra Sapphire'!
Also, anyone else now got the Ed sheeran song stuck in their head? 🙈

Hiptothisjive · 02/09/2025 23:46

Stripper name or trashy name. What sounds cute and fun for a baby could mean a lifetime of regret for your child. Please don’t.

Emit35x · 03/09/2025 12:59

Hiptothisjive · 02/09/2025 23:46

Stripper name or trashy name. What sounds cute and fun for a baby could mean a lifetime of regret for your child. Please don’t.

There's nothing wrong with the name Sapphire, get off your high horse, if people want to think that its a stripper or trashy name then that's their problem in their little minds. It's the name of a gemstone and if anyone thinks otherwise then they're a problem. I don't like the name Nevaeh and other girls names and boys but I'd never say they were trashy names, people even give their kids made up names now.

Hiptothisjive · 03/09/2025 13:53

Emit35x · 03/09/2025 12:59

There's nothing wrong with the name Sapphire, get off your high horse, if people want to think that its a stripper or trashy name then that's their problem in their little minds. It's the name of a gemstone and if anyone thinks otherwise then they're a problem. I don't like the name Nevaeh and other girls names and boys but I'd never say they were trashy names, people even give their kids made up names now.

Haha. Goodness touched a nerve. I’m not on a high horse and stand by what I said that so what people think and because I have an opinion different to yours it doesn’t make it wrong or mean I have a Lille mind.

Well aware it’s a gemstone but that makes no difference to naming your child Sapphire. Would you name your kid Peridot? Agate? Garnet?

Perhaps have an argument on facts or your opinion without belittling people then maybe I would take your comment seriously. It’s what people without little minds do.

Pinkyhere · 03/09/2025 14:45

bellocchild · 18/07/2025 10:46

I taught a Sapphira once - lovely girl, lovely name. The 'a' makes all the difference.

Totally agree.

AgentPidge · 03/09/2025 14:50

BarnacleBeasley · 18/07/2025 11:42

I am just thinking of Joanna Lumley with a pudding-bowl haircut and blue eyeshadow. But I also find Saffron a bit embarrassing, as it's Edina's daughter's name in Absolutely Fabulous, and was clearly chosen as a pisstake of a middle-class wannabe hippy name at the time.

Yes, I totally agree with this. Sapphire is a bit 1980s to me. But younger people may not make that connection. If you love it, use it - it's not awful, and I prefer it to Saffron.

caringcarer · 03/09/2025 14:52

Sapphire and Sapphira both very pretty names. Go for it OP.

ChocolateGanache · 05/09/2025 07:54

PurpleChrayn · 18/08/2025 23:08

Some gem names are nice (Ruby, Pearl).

Others are strippers (Amber, Crystal, Sapphire).

Nobody knows why.

True

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