Entry № 10859 · Hebrew origin

Tziporah Tziporah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tsee-POH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Bird (Zipporah - Moses's wife biblical)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "bird (zipporah - moses's wife biblical)".

Tziporah is from the Hebrew ṣippōrāh (צִפֹּרָה — bird). Zipporah (Tziporah) was the biblical wife of Moses and mother of Gershom and Eliezer (Exodus 2-4, 18) — daughter of Jethro the Midianite priest of Midian. Central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

Bird (Zipporah - Moses's wife biblical) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

צִפֹּרָה
Transliteration
Ṣippōrāh
Pronunciation
/ tsiːˈpoʊ.rə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Tziporah stands.

Tziporah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tziporahs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Zipporah (Tziporah)
Moses's biblical wife.

Names connected to Tziporah.

The number behind Tziporah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tziporah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.