Girl · Hebrew
Hephzibah
Say it: HEF-zih-bah
Meaning
Hebrew Ḥeftsi-vah, 'my delight is in her', as explained in Isaiah 62:4.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Puritan name, borne by Hepzibah Pyncheon in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 109 babies given this name since 2001
- At its height in 2012, about 1 in 175,900 girls
- 9 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hepzibah, Hepsibah, Hepsie, Hephsibah
| Hebrew | Chefzibah |
|---|---|
| Hebrew | Cheftzi-vah |
Famous bearers
- Hephzibah, wife of King Hezekiah
- Hepzibah Pyncheon, character in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Well-known works of literature
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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