The surname Vora
A Gujarati surname, carried by 1,838 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex V600
Origin
Gujarati origin
Borrowed from Gujarati વહોરા (vahorā) or Gujarati વોરા (vorā).
One of 18 Gujarati surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,838 people named Vora in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,979 Americans. That is up 47% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,255.
Who is named Vora
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Vora identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 93%
- White (not Hispanic) 3.2%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Vora has the Soundex code V600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V600.
Other Gujarati surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Vora come from?
- Borrowed from Gujarati વહોરા (vahorā) or Gujarati વોરા (vorā).
- How common is the surname Vora?
- 1,838 people in the United States had the surname Vora in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,979 Americans. It ranked 15,833rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Vora?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vora identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.2% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Vora getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,255 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,838 in 2010, up 47%.