Entry № 11980 · Hebrew origin

Zipporah Zipporah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tsi-POR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Bird"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "bird".

Zipporah (צִפּוֹרָה) is the Hebrew word for "bird." In the Book of Exodus, Zipporah is the Midianite wife of Moses and the mother of his two sons.

Zipporah Wiseman (1929-2018) was an American jurist.

Bird. The wife of Moses.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Zipporah stands.

Zipporah 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.

Zipporahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Zipporah
Wife of Moses in the Book of Exodus.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Zipporah.

The number behind Zipporah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zipporah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.