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Zipporah

#2,238 in 2025Girls' name

Bird

Zipporah has been given to 2,632 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,238 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Zipporah, 2025

1 in 39,900

Zipporah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zipporah: meaning, origin, and history

Bird

Hebrew

What Zipporah means

Zipporah means “bird”, associated with ṣippōr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה (ṣippōrā), a feminization of ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Zipporah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Zipporah comes through Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zipporah is pronounced /ˈzɪpəɹə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,632 girls were recorded with the name Zipporah between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,189 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,711 in 2020 to #2,238 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,500 in 2015 to #2,238 in 2025.

How common is Zipporah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,238
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zipporah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zipporah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zipporahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zipporah was born before 2006 — so the typical Zipporah is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,599
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2010s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (685).

Is Zipporah 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
+690
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+473
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+262
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.5%
Peak was 2018 (86)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,189
2018

Spellings of Zipporah

Zipporah is the most-used spelling, taking 70.5% of the 3,734 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Zipporah is used

Across 2016–2025, Zipporah was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 39,232 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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.

Zipporah around the world

Where Zipporah 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Zipporah in other languages

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

SeforaSéforaCippóra

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

Zipporah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,238
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 473
Best rank ever
#2,189
2018
Peak year
2018
86 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,632
Count in 2025
83

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Names with a curve like Zipporah

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

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Sibling names for Zipporah

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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