Given name
Tirza
“one who is pleasant; a delight”
Tirza is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is pleasant; a delight.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is pleasant; a delight.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tirza through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 344
- 0 boys · 344 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,060 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,060 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 560 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tirza’s family of names
In German usage, Tirza has a conventional equivalent in the English form Tirzah. Tirza has a related form in Tirzah. In German usage, Tirza has a related form in Thirza.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tirza
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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