Zora

Where Zora comes from

Zora hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #294 among girls — 28 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #257
    58 babies named Zora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    Zora Neale Hurston born
    African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate
  4. 1932
    Zora Folley born
    American boxer
  5. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,186.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zora Neale Hurston · African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate, 1891–1960
  • Zora Folley · American boxer, 1932–1972
  • Zora Kerova · Czech actress, dancer, singer, and model, born 1950
  • Zora Arkus-Duntov · American engineer, 1909–1996
  • Zora Dubljević · Bosnian singer of Sevdalinka, born 1938

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.