Meaning not yet researched.
Zora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 264 in 2025. Its best rank was #258 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #258 in 1884; #969 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Zora in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#969 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #258.
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Zora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 264 girls in 2025. Peak: #258 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 353 (2019).
In 2025, 264 US girls were named Zora, making it the 969th most common girls’ name of the year, down 51 places from #918 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 290 girls named Zora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #258, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 353, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,575 in 2015 and #1,719 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zora in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 28 babies. In all, 10,248 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,870 babies named Zora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,838 US girls were named Zora; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 353. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,088 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zora ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #92 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Zara (20,930 babies since 1880), Zola (9,312 babies since 1880) and Sora (2,462 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zoraya, Zorah and Zohra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zoraya (573), Zorah (527), Zohra (434), Sura (432), Sorah (200), Zohara (120), Zuhra (67), Zura (44), Zurah (11), Sorai (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zora in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 9 | #92 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #510 | #1,046 |
| Oregon | 7 | #547 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #639 | #839 |
| Georgia | 16 | #675 | #1,771 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #762 | #1,628 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #772 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #786 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #845 | #1,369 |
| New York | 19 | #858 | #1,070 |
| Illinois | 10 | #926 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #1,045 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #1,053 | #2,410 |
| California | 24 | #1,110 | #2,033 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,132 | #1,275 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,179 | #1,402 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,266 | #3,788 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,280 | #1,083 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 264 | #969 | 9 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 290 | #918 | — | — |
| 2023 | 313 | #853 | 6 | #12,233 |
| 2022 | 332 | #847 | 10 | #8,295 |
| 2021 | 338 | #824 | — | — |
| 2020 | 308 | #875 | — | — |
| 2019 | 353 | #788 | — | — |
| 2018 | 270 | #981 | — | — |
| 2017 | 206 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2015 | 140 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2006 | 98 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,981 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,063 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,318 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,651 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,429 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,192 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,036 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,822 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,748 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,305 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,887 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,109 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,312 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,648 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,891 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,515 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,457 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,056 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,808 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,008 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,634 | 5 | #4,621 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1944 | 51 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1943 | 45 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1941 | 52 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1939 | 55 | #959 | — | — |
| 1938 | 61 | #913 | — | — |
| 1937 | 49 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1936 | 59 | #893 | — | — |
| 1935 | 62 | #883 | — | — |
| 1934 | 72 | #793 | — | — |
| 1933 | 57 | #903 | — | — |
| 1932 | 70 | #825 | — | — |
| 1931 | 73 | #796 | — | — |
| 1930 | 93 | #731 | — | — |
| 1929 | 72 | #841 | — | — |
| 1928 | 81 | #799 | — | — |
| 1927 | 92 | #756 | — | — |
| 1926 | 93 | #747 | — | — |
| 1925 | 114 | #692 | — | — |
| 1924 | 122 | #675 | — | — |
| 1923 | 130 | #648 | — | — |
| 1922 | 128 | #650 | — | — |
| 1921 | 136 | #635 | — | — |
| 1920 | 135 | #616 | — | — |
| 1919 | 117 | #644 | 6 | #4,167 |
| 1918 | 134 | #611 | — | — |
| 1917 | 135 | #590 | — | — |
| 1916 | 152 | #540 | — | — |
| 1915 | 169 | #475 | 5 | #4,389 |
| 1914 | 120 | #510 | — | — |
| 1913 | 90 | #537 | — | — |
| 1912 | 99 | #482 | — | — |
| 1911 | 82 | #455 | — | — |
| 1910 | 57 | #542 | — | — |
| 1909 | 57 | #499 | — | — |
| 1908 | 59 | #473 | — | — |
| 1907 | 92 | #368 | — | — |
| 1906 | 64 | #434 | — | — |
| 1905 | 55 | #457 | — | — |
| 1904 | 54 | #444 | — | — |
| 1903 | 83 | #350 | — | — |
| 1902 | 58 | #407 | — | — |
| 1901 | 58 | #388 | — | — |
| 1900 | 99 | #338 | — | — |
| 1899 | 56 | #388 | — | — |
| 1898 | 65 | #388 | — | — |
| 1897 | 67 | #361 | — | — |
| 1896 | 72 | #346 | — | — |
| 1895 | 55 | #377 | — | — |
| 1894 | 66 | #342 | — | — |
| 1893 | 67 | #331 | 5 | #1,179 |
| 1892 | 66 | #329 | — | — |
| 1891 | 52 | #348 | — | — |
| 1890 | 60 | #328 | — | — |
| 1889 | 53 | #345 | — | — |
| 1888 | 42 | #373 | — | — |
| 1887 | 46 | #318 | — | — |
| 1886 | 52 | #288 | — | — |
| 1885 | 48 | #293 | — | — |
| 1884 | 58 | #258 | — | — |
| 1883 | 35 | #299 | — | — |
| 1882 | 32 | #316 | — | — |
| 1881 | 21 | #373 | — | — |
| 1880 | 28 | #304 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).