Tziporah
Feminine · “bird”
Tziporah is the Hebrew word for a bird, and it belongs to Moses' wife — a Midianite woman who saves his life in one of the strangest short passages in Exodus.
How old is the name Tziporah?
Tziporah first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Tziporah alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Tziporah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tziporah most popular?
Tziporah peaked in 2021, reaching #3002 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 778 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tzippor to Tziporah
The story of Tziporah
Zipporah is the daughter of the priest of Midian who marries Moses at the well, and in a passage of three verses that nobody has satisfactorily explained she circumcises their son with a flint and saves Moses from being killed by God on the road. The name stayed in Jewish use throughout and is common in observant communities today; Ashkenazi pronunciation gives Tzipporah and the short form Tzipi.
Meaning
bird
From Hebrew tzippor, a bird; the word is the ordinary term and appears throughout the Hebrew Bible, and the name is its feminine form.
How the name formed
- tzippor
- Tziporah
Related forms: Tzipporah · Zipporah · Tzipora
Pronouncing Tziporah
tsi-POR-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle; the tz is a single sound as in cats. Hebrew stresses the last.
Nicknames for Tziporah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 202155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3002reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −11.4%39 in 2025, from 44
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tziporah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tzipporah in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Zipporah in English — same name
- Tzipora in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Tziporahs among us
people named Tziporah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Tziporah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tziporah
- #3780
- Tziporah on the 2025 chart
- #841
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tziporah went to 39 girls in 2025, but Tzipora, Tzipporah and Tzippora are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 119, which makes it the 841st most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,939 places above the chart.
- Tzipora54
- Tziporah39
- Tzipporah21
- Tzippora5
About 1 girl in 13,506 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 41,212 for Tziporah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Damara test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tziporah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Damara climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Damara's path sketches the road Tziporah is walking now.
Tziporah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tziporah is headed
Tziporah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tziporah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tziporah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is concrete and easy to explain to a child.
- Tzipi is a warm short form already in universal community use.
- A documented biblical figure with a genuinely striking scene behind her.
- The tz is one sound in Hebrew and gets split by English speakers.
- Zipporah is the English biblical spelling and looks quite different.
- It is strongly marked as a Jewish name, which is the intention in the families that use it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tziporahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Tziporah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tziporah?
- Tziporah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Tzipora is the more common one — 54 births in 2025 against 39 for Tziporah.
- How popular is the name Tziporah in 2025?
- Tziporah ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tziporah?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Tziporah — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tziporah with classmates?
- Tziporah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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