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Thirza

Girls' name

Pleasant, through Tirzah

Thirza has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1887. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Thirza, 1981

1 in 577,000

Thirza over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thirza: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasant, through Tirzah

Hebrew

What Thirza means

Thirza belongs to the name family reached through Thirza → Tirzah. Its meaning is “pleasant”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from the German variant of Tirzah through 18th-century literature.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Thirza (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Thirza is used in English and German. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tirzah and Tirza.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 girls were recorded with the name Thirza between 1887 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,139 in 1887.

How common is Thirza?

Thirza had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 577,000
6 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 278,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
399,616 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thirza sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thirza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thirzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thirza was born before 1920 — so the typical Thirza is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Thirza rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (20)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,139
1887

Spellings of Thirza

Thirza is not the most common spelling — Shira is, with 32.7% against Thirza's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thirza around the world

Where Thirza ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1978–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Thirza by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,139
1887
Peak year
1917
20 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
207
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thirza

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ThianaThiaraThiagoThiaTirzaThiyaErzaAarzaThiriThistleThisbeThurzaMirzaThierryThildaThienThienanTierzaThiThidaTearzaThienkimThiraThyrza

Sibling names for Thirza

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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