Girl · Hebrew
Tirzah
Say it: TUR-zuh
Meaning
Hebrew Tirtsah, usually read as 'pleasantness, delight', from ratsah 'to be pleased'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries; also the name of an ancient Israelite city.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 1,864 babies given this name since 1899
- At its height in 2017, about 1 in 24,300 girls
- 50 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: Tirza
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Famous bearers
- Tirzah, one of the daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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