Shifra
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ʃifɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shifra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 257K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.3Kas שפרה
- CYCyprus≈1 in 136K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shifra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 named שפרה, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled שפרה in IL Israel, RO Romania, SK Slovakia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shifra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | שפרה | 3 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | — | 4 |
| IL Israel | #364 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 5 | שפרה | 45 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | שפרה | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,292 | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Shifra | 119 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | שפרה | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Shifra | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Shifra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish: from Hebrew shifra beauty, grace. Spelled Shiphrah in the Authorized Version, it was the name of one of the midwives who defied Pharaoh's order to drown all newborn Hebrew boys (Exodus 1: 15–19). Variant: Shiphrah .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shifra Alonb. 1910ILIsraeli writer (1910–1996)
- Shifra Rinb. 1914ILIsraeli linguistics researcher
- Shifra Lererb. 1915ARArgentine-born Jewish-American actress (1915-2011)
- Shifra Shvartsb. 1949ILIsraeli professor
- Shifra Baruchson-Arbibb. 1951ILIsraeli historian (1951-)
- Shifra Kornfeldb. 1980ILIsraeli writer, screenwriter and television presenter
- Shifra Ben-DorILIsraeli geneticist and biochemistry researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,370 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 50 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 44 | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Shifra?
- In the etymology graph, Shiphrah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Shifra?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃifɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shifra a male or female name?
- Shifra is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shifra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named שפרה in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shifra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,292 people named Shifra in 2020, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
- How common is Shifra compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shifra is the 364th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shifraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shifra” — the 364th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.