Zora

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Zora is ranked 918th among girls in 2024 (289 births). Its best rank was 258th, in 1884.

Rank in 2024: #918down 58 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2890.02% of girls
Peak year: 2019353 births
Best rank: #258in 1884
Since 1880: 9,935people given the name

Babies named Zora, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

9,935 girls have been named Zora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 353 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Zora
1880s	415
1890s	626
1900s	679
1910s	1,155
1920s	1,103
1930s	651
1940s	435
1950s	290
1960s	132
1970s	93
1980s	63
1990s	176
2000s	877
2010s	1,662
2020s	1,578

In 2019, its biggest year

Zora was the 788th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Zora

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.