Zora

Serbo-Croatian

"dawn"

Zora Origin and Meaning

The name Zora is a girl's name of Arabic, Slavic, African origin meaning "dawn".

Zora is a meaningful literary heroine name honoring Zora Neale Hurston, an important black writer and leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Spelled Zorah, it is a biblical place name, and is also the name of a character in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Ruddigore.

Fairly well used from the 1880s until 1940, Zora reached a high of Number 293 in 1885.

Zora Rank in US Top 1000

# 846 in the US

Zora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 417 on Nameberry

Zora Popularity

• 846 US 2022
• 417 Nameberry 2024
• 954 Future 2028
• 82 Hungary 2022

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Famous People Named Zora

• Zora Neale Hurston American novelist
• Zora Andrich American model and actress
• Zora Cross Australian poet and author
• Zora Dirnbach Croatian writer
• Izora "Zora" Fair American Civil War spy
• Zora Jandová Czech singer and actress
• Zora Kerova Czech actress
• Zora Kostková Czech actress
• Zora Mintalová Zubercová , Slovakian ethnographer, historian and museologist
• Zora Petrović Serbian painter
• Zora Tavčar Slovene writer, essayist and translator
• Zora Vesecká Czech actress
• Zora Wolfová Czech translator
• Zora Young American singer
• Zorka Janů Czech actress, sister of Lída Baarová
• Zora Arkus Duntov, Belgian,American male engineer

Zora in Pop Culture

• Zora Lancaster character from "Sonny with a Chance"
• Zora December countess from "The Jewel of the Kalderash"
• The Zora race of aquatic people in "Legend of Zelda" series
• Zora Rothstein character from "Star of Babylon"
• Zora la Vampira Italian comic book erotic character
• Zora character in the "Powers" comics
• Zorra Spanish word meaning literally "vixen"
• Zora name taken by the computer of the USS Discovery after the ship had been abandoned for almost a thousand years. The computer had, over the centuries, developed an artificial intelligence complete with a personality.
• This personality was gendered female and had a predilection for the 1957 film Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. A holographic representation of Zora also performed a dance of the film with Craft on the bridge of the Discovery. From the Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Calypso"
• Zora Salazar cowboy, bounty hunter, and the final antagonist in season one of the web series Epithet Erased. She has time powers.