Fun Facts About the Name Tikvah
- 50 babies named Tikvah: U.S. records list 50 babies given the name Tikvah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Tikvah Mean?
Tikvah is a Hebrew name meaning "hope." It comes from the Hebrew noun תִּקְוָה (tikvah), "hope" or "expectation," which is related to the verb קָוָה (qavah), "to wait" or "to hope." The name is conventionally understood in that sense. The same Hebrew word can also mean "cord" or "line" in a few biblical passages, as in the scarlet cord of Joshua 2, but that concrete sense is not the meaning of the personal name.
Tikvah Name History & Origins
Tikvah is a Hebrew word attested in the Hebrew Bible, where it also appears as a personal name: in 2 Kings 22:14, Shallum, the husband of the prophetess Huldah, is identified as the son of Tikvah. That biblical bearer is male. The feminine name Tikvah is used in Jewish communities and in modern Hebrew, where it belongs to a group of word-names drawn from abstract qualities. The spelling Tikva is a common transliteration variant, reflecting the silent final h in the Hebrew spelling תִּקְוָה.
The word is especially familiar from Jeremiah 29:11, where the promise of "a future and a hope" uses tikvah, and from Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah ("The Hope"). In English-language use, the name is most often encountered in Jewish families and in writing about Hebrew literature and Israel.
How Popular is the Name Tikvah?
Tikvah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1994. Its best rank was #11,945 in 1983.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #17,056 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #15,045 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #15,088 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #18,989 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #16,604 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #17,474 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #17,771 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #13,320 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #11,945 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Tikvah Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You like to control everyone within your influence, to shape things to your own liking. If positive, you develop high spirituality, as you have a God's protection. You are sensitive, affectionate, imaginative and cooperative, spiritually aware and prone to self-sacrifice. You can keep secrets and are a good diplomat. You may have healing and psychic powers. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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