Tikva is from the Hebrew תִּקְוָה (tiqwāh — hope, expectation). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew-Israeli heritage aesthetic. Tikva is one of the foundational Hebrew feminine virtue names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. The foundational Hebrew tiqwāh is central to the foundational HaTikvah (The Hope, התקוה) — the foundational Israeli national anthem composed by foundational Romanian-Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber (1878 in Iași Romania, published in Barkai 1886) + set to a melody by Samuel Cohen (1888 Rishon LeZion) — central to foundational Zionist heritage + foundational State of Israel symbolism (officially adopted 2004). Notable bearer: Tikva Sarnat — Israeli foundational fertility activist + Petah Tikva (Hebrew Pétaḥ Tiqwāh — Doorway of Hope, foundational Israeli city named for biblical Hosea 2:17).
Featured throughout Hebrew heritage.
Tikva 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 Tikva reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.