Zora
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Zora
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.Now, Zora is back in the charts and given to more than 300 girls every year, perhaps because of its namesake and how it makes an interesting alternative to Nora, Cora, or Zara.
Zora is also given to boys, where it ranks #8906 in the US.
Pronounced ZOR-uh.
As of October 2026, Zora ranked #969 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #258 in 1884, Nameberry popularity #270.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,568 | 139 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,575 | 140 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,419 | 164 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,189 | 206 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #979 | 270 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #788 | 353 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #875 | 308 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #823 | 338 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #847 | 332 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #860 | 311 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #918 | 289 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #969 | 264 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Zora for girls
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Zora on lists
Famous Zoras
- Zora Neale HurstonGirl
American novelist
- Zora AndrichGirl
American model and actress
- Zora CrossGirl
Australian poet and author
- Zora DirnbachGirl
Croatian writer
- Izora "Zora" FairGirl
American Civil War spy
- Zora JandováGirl
Czech singer and actress
- Zora KerovaGirl
Czech actress
- Zora KostkováGirl
Czech actress
- Zora MintalováGirl
Zubercová , Slovakian ethnographer, historian and museologist
- Zora PetrovićGirl
Serbian painter
- Zora TavčarGirl
Slovene writer, essayist and translator
- Zora VeseckáGirl
Czech actress
- Zora WolfováGirl
Czech translator
- Zora YoungGirl
American singer
- Zorka JanůGirl
Czech actress, sister of Lída Baarová
- Zora ArkusGirl
Duntov, Belgian,American male engineer
Zora in pop culture
- Zora LancasterGirl
character from "Sonny with a Chance"
- Zora DecemberGirl
countess from "The Jewel of the Kalderash"
- The ZoraGirl
race of aquatic people in "Legend of Zelda" series
- Zora RothsteinGirl
character from "Star of Babylon"
- Zora la VampiraGirl
Italian comic book erotic character
- ZoraGirl
character in the "Powers" comics
- ZorraGirl
Spanish word meaning literally "vixen"
- ZoraGirl
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 FaceGirl
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 SalazarGirl
cowboy, bounty hunter, and the final antagonist in season one of the web series Epithet Erased. She has time powers.