# Zora (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zora/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,248 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 46 / 10,202 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 316, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 94 | 2,072 |
| 2012 | 109 | 1,858 |
| 2013 | 99 | 1,989 |
| 2014 | 139 | 1,568 |
| 2015 | 140 | 1,575 |
| 2016 | 164 | 1,419 |
| 2017 | 206 | 1,189 |
| 2018 | 270 | 981 |
| 2019 | 353 | 788 |
| 2020 | 308 | 875 |
| 2021 | 338 | 824 |
| 2022 | 332 | 847 |
| 2023 | 313 | 853 |
| 2024 | 290 | 918 |
| 2025 | 264 | 969 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1893 | 5 | 1,179 |
| 1915 | 5 | 4,389 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,167 |
| 1963 | 5 | 4,621 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,295 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,233 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,906 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,711 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,195 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,512 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,276 |

## People named Zora

- Zora Neale Hurston, African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891
- Zora Folley, American boxer (1931–1972)
- Zora Kerova, Czech actress, dancer, singer, and model
- Zora Arkus-Duntov, American engineer
- Zora Dubljević, Bosnian singer of Sevdalinka
- Zora Young, American blues singer
- Zora Dirnbach, Croatian journalist and writer
- Zorka Janů, Czech actress (1921–1946)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.