Zipora
Barely there in Poland: around 59 women carry it and no girls have been given it this century. A Hebrew name meaning "bird", it belongs to Jewish tradition.
Zipora Pronunciation
Zipora is pronounced zhee-PO-rah (/ʑiˈpɔra/).
What Zipora means
Where Zipora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Zipora comes from Hebrew, from tzippor, the word for bird. Its short meaning is exactly that: bird, ptak in Polish. The oldest bearer stands in the Book of Exodus, where Zipporah marries Moses in the land of Midian. She is the daughter of Jethro, a priest, and in the text she names her own sons.
That biblical link kept the name inside Jewish families for a long time. A girl called Zipora carried a word older than most surnames on any Polish class register.
The Hebrew root sits close to the everyday. Tzippor is simply the bird you hear outside, not a mythical creature. So the meaning stays plain and small. A child gets the name of a sparrow.
How many people are named Zipora
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Zipora. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4841 among female names.
Zipora as a middle name
Zipora is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1440th, between Yasemin (25) and Zsuzsanna (25).
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#1438 Thị25
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#1439 Yasemin25
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#1440 Zipora25
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#1441 Zsuzsanna25
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#1442 Akter24