Zora

ZOR-uh

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.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 Rank in US Top 1000

# 863 in the US

Zora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 599 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Zora

• 863 US 2023
• 599 Nameberry 2025
• 954 Future 2028
• 67 Hungary 2023

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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

The name 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.