Tikvah is from the Hebrew תִּקְוָה (Tiqvāh — hope, expectation) — from Hebrew qavah (to wait/hope). Tikvah is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish + Zionist heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting Israeli national heritage.
Tikvah 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tikvah reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.