girls:
9.6k births since 1880
#1639 (71st percentile)
boys:
37 births since 1893
#4549 (1st percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1880
#2727 (65th percentile)
The name Zora is the #2,727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,679 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 64.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,639 (71.3% percentile) for all time with 9,642 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,549 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1893.
Zora has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1893 for boys). Birth data for Zora is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zora has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Zora reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 35.7% percentile (ranked #608) with 192 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 422 births per million (ranked 21.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zora ranks #651 for girls (31.3% percentile) with 177 births per million, which is 41.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Zora reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #919) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Zora ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zora".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zora is pronounced as ZAW-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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