Shifra

“Variant of Shiphrah”

Girl's name · #2580 in the US (2025) · Trending

Shifra is climbing: on the charts since 1930, it reached #2580 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 70 girls given the name last year. Roughly 1,700 have carried it all-time. In New York and New Jersey it runs 6–10× its national rate.

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-).

Similar names: Devora · Sinai · Avira · Serayah · Ayala · Talya

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