Tirzah
Tirzah was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,775 among girls’ names; 2,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Tirzah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tirzah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tirzah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tirzah is “a female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the senses “pleasant” (meaning) and “she is my delight” (or).
Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning “pleasant” or “she is my delight”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tirzah?
#2,775 among girls’ names, 2025
Tirzah fell from #2,733 in 2015 to #2,775 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 36.4 to 38.6 per million.
71 babies in 2017, the peak
Tirzah peaked in 2017, when 71 girls were given it, #2,529 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,775 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,953 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,977 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,588 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,431 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,136 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,650 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 55 | #3,001 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,529 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,006 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,733 | 36.4 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,736 | 35.8 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,656 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,801 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,723 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,689 | 37.7 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,156 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,930 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,044 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,309 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,255 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,560 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,177 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,719 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,197 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,395 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,558 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,014 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,535 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,820 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,077 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,696 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,659 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,669 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,986 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,045 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,656 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,791 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,114 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,528 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,722 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,727 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,677 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,892 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,239 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,496 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,655 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,186 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,360 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,179 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,488 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,100 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,344 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,267 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,792 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,324 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,603 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,949 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,600 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,509 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,476 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,869 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,996 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,519 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,712 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,682 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,489 | 7.8 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,576 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tirzah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tirzah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tirzah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tirzah, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,095 Americans ever recorded as Tirzah. The median Tirzah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,696 people named Tirzah (1,687 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 216 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 697 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 719 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,439 babies since 1880, Tirzah is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 67 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tirzah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tirzah and names like it
- Compare Tirzah and TirzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTirzah peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tirzah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Tirzah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Tirzah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tirzah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.