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Tirzah

#2,775 in 2025Girls' name

Pleasant

Tirzah has been given to 2,095 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #2,775 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Tirzah, 2025

1 in 53,500

Tirzah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tirzah: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasant

Hebrew

What Tirzah means

Tirzah means “pleasant”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning "pleasant" or "she is my delight".

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Tirzah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Tirzah comes through Hebrew תִּרְצָה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,095 girls were recorded with the name Tirzah between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,576 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,136 in 2020 to #2,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,733 in 2015 to #2,775 in 2025.

How common is Tirzah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,775
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tirzah 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 2025 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tirzah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tirzahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tirzah was born before 2007 — so the typical Tirzah is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,070
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (639).

Is Tirzah 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
+1,178
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+361
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−42
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.3%
Peak was 2017 (71)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,576
1899

Spellings of Tirzah

Tirzah is not the most common spelling — Tarah is, with 27.8% against Tirzah's 12.3%.

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.

Where Tirzah is used

Across 2016–2025, Tirzah was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 61,096 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 14,286
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Tirzah around the world

Where Tirzah 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
    1999–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #674
    in 1965

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

Tirzah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tirzah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Thirza

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tirzah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 361
Best rank ever
#1,576
1899
Peak year
2017
71 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,095
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Tirzah

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

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Names with a curve like Tirzah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tirzah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tirzah

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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