Tziporah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- tsih-POR-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #3,779 for girls
Tziporah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “bird”. In 2025 it ranked 3,779th for girls in the US (39 babies).
What does Tziporah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Tzipora, itself a spelling of Zipporah
“bird”
Zipporah, the wife of Moses in the Book of Exodus, bore this name.
Meaning borrowed from Tzipora.
Is Tziporah a girl's or a boy's name?
Tziporah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 39 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tziporah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,779among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 39about 1 in 41,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 39 girls in the US were named Tziporah, making it the 3,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,004th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had fewer girls named Tziporah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Tziporah in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 98 girls in the US were given Tziporah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,714, up from #3,779 for this spelling alone.
- Tzipora 54
- Tziporah 39
- Tzippora 5
Tziporah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,779 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,516 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,386 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,469 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,002 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,004 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,271 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,303 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,530 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,914 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,541 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,484 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,095 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,575 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,432 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,488 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,440 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,158 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,125 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,953 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,281 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,539 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,783 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,664 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
Nicknames for Tziporah
- Tzipi
Names like Tziporah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Selah Delilah Talia Ximena Savannah Solana Mariah Aria Annalise Alora Eliana
Other spellings of Tziporah
Names related to Tziporah
More Hebrew names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tziporah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tziporah, updated 20 October 2026.