Tzipora is from the Hebrew Ṣipporāh (ציפורה — bird). A modern American baby name in the broader Jewish-heritage aesthetic. Tzipora (Zipporah) in the Hebrew Bible — wife of Moses; daughter of Jethro (the Midianite priest); mother of Gershom and Eliezer; appears in Exodus 2:21-22, 4:24-26, and 18:2; her marriage to Moses became one of the most-iconic interfaith and intercultural unions in the Hebrew Bible — Tzipora was a Midianite, while Moses was Hebrew; the famous Exodus 4 passage in which Tzipora circumcises her son with a flint and addresses Moses as a "bridegroom of blood" is one of the most-discussed enigmatic passages in biblical scholarship. Tzipi Livni (Tzipora Malka Livni, born 1958) — Israeli politician; first Israeli woman to head a major political party (Kadima 2008-2012); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel (2006-2009); led peace negotiations with the Palestinians; Vice Prime Minister (2008-2009); one of the most-influential modern Israeli female politicians. Tzipora Jochsberger (1920-2014) — Holocaust survivor; first Director of the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance (NY). Tzipora Yavin — Israeli figure.
Featured throughout biblical heritage and Israeli politics.
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.
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.