Sapphire Name Meaning & Origin
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- Nicknames for Sapphire
-Saph(pronounced saff)
-Sapphy/Saffie/Saffy
-Fire(Phire)
-Fye/Fie (Phye/Phi)
-Pire (Pyre)- Meanings and history of the name Sapphire
Sapphire is a semi-precious gemstone that comes in a variety of colors.
It is also the birthstone for those born in the month of September, Virgo born between August 23rd and September 23rd.
- Famous real-life people named Sapphire
Sapphire (born Ramona Lofton), American author and poet, best known for her novel "Push", upon which the Oscar-nominated film "Precious" was based.
- Sapphire in song, story & screen
In the house of night series there is a character (one of the healers or "school nurses") named Sapphire, all of the characters (vampires) also happen to have sapphire colored crescent moons on their for heads and adults have sapphire colored tattoos