Zipora

Where Zipora comes from

Zipora hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #6,086 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #3,872
    15 babies named Zipora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,324.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Zipora hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.