# Sappho (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sappho/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈsæ.foʊ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Sapphō, borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Սապփո
- Bulgarian: Сафо
- Catalan: Safo
- Danish: Sapfo
- Dutch: Sappho
- Esperanto: Sapfo
- Finnish: Sapfo
- French: Sappho
- German: Sappho
- Greek: Σαπφώ
- Hebrew: סאפפו
- Hungarian: Szapphó, Szapfó
- Irish: Safó
- Italian: Saffo
- Japanese: サッポー
- Latin: Sapphō
- Polish: Safona, Safo
- Portuguese: Safo
- Russian: Сапфо́, Сафо́
- Slovak: Sapfo

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.