Meaning not yet researched.
Zipporah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,189 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,189 in 2018; #2,238 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zipporah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,238 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,189.
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Zipporah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,189 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 86 (2018).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Zipporah, making it the 2,238th most common girls’ name of the year, up 690 places from #2,928 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 57 girls named Zipporah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,189, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #2,500 in 2015 and #6,108 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zipporah in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 2,632 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 685 babies named Zipporah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 728 US girls were named Zipporah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zipporah ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,242 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sefora, Zipora and Ziporah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sefora (288), Zipora (45), Ziporah (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zipporah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,242 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,268 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,787 | #1,769 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,282 | #2,363 |
| California | 5 | #3,529 | #3,937 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,521 | — | — |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,521 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,957 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,962 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,991 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #7,013 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,531 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,577 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,243 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,494 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,212 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,897 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,443 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).