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Shifra

“Variant of Shiphrah”

Girl's name · #2564 in the US (2025) · Trending

Shifra has appeared in US records since 1930 — best rank #2564 (2025) · 1,715 babies named Shifra all-time · 1 in 25,000 girls born in 2025.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Shifras

• Shifra Lerer — Argentine-born Jewish-American actress (1915-2011)
• Shifra Baruchson-Arbib — Israeli historian (1951-)
• Shifra Horn — Israeli writer (born 1951)
• Shifra Kholodenko — Jewish Soviet poet, translator (1909–1970)
• Shifra Goldman — American art historian and activist (1926–2011)

What Shifras become

Among 16 notable people named Shifra:

Scientists & scholars appear 2.68× more often than among typical names — e.g. Shifra Baruchson-Arbib, Israeli historian (1951-).

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