Tziporah is from the Hebrew ṣippōrāh (צִפֹּרָה — bird). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew heritage aesthetic. Zipporah (Tziporah) was the foundational biblical wife of Moses and mother of Gershom and Eliezer (Exodus 2-4, 18) — daughter of Jethro the Midianite priest of Midian. Foundational figure in the Exodus narrative who circumcised her son to save Moses from God's wrath (Exodus 4:24-26) — one of the foundational and most-debated passages in biblical scholarship. Central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. Foundational matriarch of the Israelite-Midianite alliance and a figure of foreign-wife integration in the Hebrew Bible — central to modern feminist + intercultural biblical scholarship.
Featured throughout biblical heritage.
Tziporah 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 Tziporah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.