Entry № 10858 · Hebrew origin

Tzipora Tzipora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tsih-POR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Bird (biblical Tzipora — Moses's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "bird (biblical tzipora — moses's wife)".

Tzipora is from the Hebrew Ṣipporāh (ציפורה — bird). Tzipora Yavin — Israeli figure.

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

The name in its native script.

צִפּוֹרָה
Transliteration
Ṣipporāh
Pronunciation
/ tsɪˈpɔːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tzipora stands.

Tzipora 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.

Tziporas before her.

Real people
Tzipi Livni
First Israeli woman to head major party.
born 1958
In fiction
Tzipora (biblical)
Moses's wife (Exodus 2:21).

Names connected to Tzipora.

The number behind Tzipora.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tzipora reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.