Zipporah

#2,214 for girls in 2025, 83 births

Peak · girls
#2,179
2018 · 86 births
Debut · girls
1912
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,632
since 1912

Zipporah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zipporah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201986peak #2,179, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
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2025#2,21483
2024#2,88957
2023#2,61467
2022#2,34679
2021#2,38475
2020#2,68262
2019#2,37675
2018#2,17986
2017#2,43274
2016#2,53970
2015#2,47173
2014#2,37177
2013#2,68165
2012#2,83261
2011#3,65942
2010#2,80362
2009#3,08855
2008#2,92360
2007#2,61670
2006#2,37579
2005#3,05252
2004#2,85156
2003#2,57762
2002#2,37967
2001#2,30469
2000#2,27768
1999#2,18269
1998#2,97343
1997#3,54732
1996#2,76044
1995#3,15236
1994#3,16836
1993#3,68129
1992#3,09137
1991#3,30133
1990#4,38022
1989#2,81039
1988#3,39328
1987#3,42426
1986#3,05430
1985#2,93931
1984#2,78132
1983#3,94919
1982#5,53412
1981#2,65734
1980#3,71921
1979#2,93129
1978#5,56311
1977#3,48621
1976#3,81217
1975#4,14115
1974#3,86316
1973#4,15514
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1970#7,0706
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1968#6,2466
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1966#4,19810
1965#6,5395
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1963#4,01911
1962#5,8606
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1960#5,1687
1959#5,5666
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1957#6,0865
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1950#5,3015
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five girls were named Zipporah! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1912–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zipporah is popular in 1986

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMINew York: #1,538 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 18,082 girlsNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Zipporah, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. New York#1,538 · 1 in 18,082

Best ever in a state: #408 in Mississippi, 1999.

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See more about Zipporah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 675 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #2,214)
  • 468 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #2,214)
  • 257 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #2,214)
Rise & fade · girls
106 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 2018 at #2,179 (86 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,365
  • Highest: 1 in 19,365 girls born in 2025 were named Zipporah (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #2,179 in 2018, was only 1 in 19,780 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 26.0% of all girls named Zipporah (685) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s12#2,979 (1912)#3,266
1920s16#4,464 (1921)#4,831
1930s0——
1940s5#5,243 (1948)#5,243
1950s26#5,301 (1950)#5,608
1960s45#4,019 (1963)#5,338
1970s129#2,931 (1979)#4,378
1980s272#2,657 (1981)#3,426
1990s381#2,182 (1999)#3,224
2000s638#2,277 (2000)#2,644
2010s685#2,179 (2018)#2,634
2020s423#2,214 (2025)#2,522

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zipporah in 1986

girls
#3,054
30 births · 1 in 57,185 girls

Top girls' names in 1986

  1. #1Jessica52,682
  2. #2Ashley49,671
  3. #3Amanda40,532
  4. #4Jennifer36,187
  5. #5Sarah28,163
  6. #6Stephanie22,651
  7. #7Nicole21,292
  8. #8Brittany20,313
  9. #9Heather19,790
  10. #10Elizabeth19,074
  11. #3,054Zipporah30
More about 1986

girls

1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 57,185 of them was named Zipporah, which outranked 76.2% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zipporah
  1. #2,973Trish31
  2. #2,973Tuesday31
  3. #2,973Zenia31
  4. #3,054Zipporah30
  5. #3,054Agatha30
  6. #3,054Alexi30
  7. #3,054Allyce30
  8. #3,135Alejandrina29
  9. #3,135Areli29
  10. #3,135Audrie29

Tied with 80 names at #3,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1985
Risers
  1. ↑ 9,719Kyrie#10,677 → #958
  2. ↑ 4,778Sable#5,678 → #900
  3. ↑ 2,034Eliana#2,484 → #450
  4. ↑ 1,497Shatara#2,484 → #987
  5. ↑ 1,374Cherrelle#2,253 → #879
Fallers
  1. ↓ 442Violeta#963 → #1,405
  2. ↓ 361Micaela#545 → #906
  3. ↓ 361Tasia#572 → #933
  4. ↓ 324Jo#925 → #1,249
  5. ↓ 306Tammie#987 → #1,293

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1986 →