Zipporah is the English form of the Hebrew Tzipporah and means "bird". In the Book of Exodus Zipporah is the wife of Moses and the daughter of the Midianite priest Jethro. The name has been used in English since the Puritans but has always been rare. In the United States Zipporah ranked number 2305 in 2000 and has stayed in roughly the same range ever since, standing at number 2238 in 2025.