Tzippora
Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
- Biblical Hebrew
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Tzippora
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Zipporah is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical Hebrew
- Hebrew
Origin & history
The Story of Tzippora
American parents first put Tzippora on the record books as a baby girl name in 1987, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1987, when 6 Tzipporas were born — ranking #9,825 that year. About 33% of every Tzippora on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Tzippora last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 48 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Tzippora
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Names that sound like Tzippora
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About the name Tzippora
Tzippora is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1987 and has accumulated 48 births in the dataset. Tzippora's peak popularity came in 1987 when it ranked #9,825. Use the chart and map above to compare Tzippora's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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