Zipporah
Zipporah was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,238 among girls’ names; 2,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Zipporah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zipporah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zipporah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zipporah is “a female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “bird” (צִפֹּר).
From Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה (ṣippōrā), a feminization of ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”).
/ˈzɪpəɹə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zipporah?
#2,238 among girls’ names, 2025
Zipporah rose from #2,500 in 2015 to #2,238 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 40.9 to 51.6 per million.
86 babies in 2018, the peak
Zipporah peaked in 2018, when 86 girls were given it, #2,189 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,238 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,928 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,645 | 41.8 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,363 | 48.2 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,415 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,711 | 38.4 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,399 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,189 | 50.6 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,463 | 42.9 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,559 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,500 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,390 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,704 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,864 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,721 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,839 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,124 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,955 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,646 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,395 | 41.6 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,076 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,884 | 30.5 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,606 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,410 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,326 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,301 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,201 | 38.9 |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,011 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,622 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,791 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,214 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,228 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,769 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,138 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,362 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,516 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,872 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,476 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,518 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,131 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 31 | #3,006 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,849 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,107 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,907 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,722 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,851 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,995 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,956 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,610 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,960 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,367 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,037 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,359 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,990 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #7,011 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,490 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,530 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,270 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,576 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,692 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,242 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #7,012 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,492 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,211 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,105 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,037 | 2.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,895 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,736 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,096 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,915 | 6.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,441 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zipporah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zipporah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zipporah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zipporah, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,632 Americans ever recorded as Zipporah. The median Zipporah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,074 people named Zipporah (2,072 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,162 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 | 44 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 161 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 475 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 937 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 937 |
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).
Where are babies named Zipporah born?
The states with the most babies named Zipporah are Ohio, Texas and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,267 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,282 | 0.5× |
| California | 5 | #3,529 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,787 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,242 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zipporah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zipporah
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 Zipporah and names like it
- Compare Zipporah and ChayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZipporah peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zipporah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zipporah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Zipporah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zipporah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.