Given name
Ziporah
“bird”
Ziporah is a variant of Zipporah. One interpretation is “bird.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ziporah is a variant of Zipporah. One interpretation is “bird.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ziporah is a variant of Zipporah. An origin associated with Zipporah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ziporah is a variant of Zipporah. The history of Zipporah gives this family its wider story. In biblical stories, Zipporah is associated with the wife of Moses.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ziporah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 0 boys · 21 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1999.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ziporah’s family of names
Ziporah has a related form in Zipporah.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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