Girl · Hebrew
Shiphrah
Say it: SHIF-ruh
Meaning
Hebrew Shifrah, usually read as 'beautiful, fair'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Found rarely in Puritan records; used in Jewish families as Shifra.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 35 babies given this name since 2010
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 228,400 girls
- 7 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Shifra
| Hebrew | Shifra |
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Famous bearers
- Shiphrah, one of the Hebrew midwives in Exodus
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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