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Tziporah vs Tzivia

American parents have registered 1,102 Tziporahs since 1880, against 683 Tzivias. Tziporah is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tziporah against Tzivia, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tziporah Tzivia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Tziporah for 44 years and Tzivia for 10 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Tziporah Tzivia
Total US births 1,102683
Most in one year 5532
Babies in 2025 3924
Estimated living today 1,100680
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20212010
Best rank 3,002nd girls4,494th girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th5,238th
First recorded 19701969
Girls / boys 1,102 / 0683 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tziporah Tzivia
England and Wales 1970

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tziporah and Tzivia.