Zilpah

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Zilpah has been given to 9 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1881, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Zilpah, 1881

1 in 21,400

Zilpah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zilpah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Hebrew

What Zilpah means

Zilpah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zilpah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9 girls were recorded with the name Zilpah between 1881 and 1881. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1881; its best national rank was #621 in 1881.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Zilpah?

Zilpah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1881, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1881: 1 in 21,400; 9 of 192,680 births
Among girls only: 1 in 10,200; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1881: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 14,841 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zilpah 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 1881 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,841 children born in 1881 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zilpah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zilpahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zilpah was born before 1881 — so the typical Zilpah is around 144 today.

Median birth year: 1881; About 144 years old
Biggest decade: 1880s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1880s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (9).

Is Zilpah 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: —; 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 1881 (9)
Years since peak: 144; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #621; 1881

Spellings of Zilpah

Zilpah is not the most common spelling — Lilah is, with 69.3% against Zilpah's 0.03%.

Lilah69.3%24,664
Milah8.1%2,881
Ilah5.0%1,788
Zylah4.1%1,445
Nilah4.0%1,420
Ziyah3.8%1,354
Ziah2.6%917
Zilpha1.6%570

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.

Zilpah 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: —
Best rank ever: #621; 1881
Peak year: 1881; 9 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 1881
All-time count: 9
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zilpah

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

Zilani Zilin Zilyana Zilynn Zillie Ziley Zilah Zilda Zillah Zila Zilphia Zilpha Zilla Orpah

Sibling names for Zilpah

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

For a sister

Lulu Maud Bess Maude Meta Hulda Golda Lauretta

For a brother

Garfield Grover Will Dewey Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield

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