Zora

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zora: Recorded since 1999, it reached #677 in 2004, and it stood at #2,115 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#677highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#2783
2004	#3197
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#4524
2009	#4564
2011	#5785
2012	#3285
2014	#4684
2015	#2328
2016	#4763
2017	#3583
2018	#1711
2019	#2286
2020	#1507
2021	#1195
2022	#1849
2023	#1469
2024	#2115

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2004: #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3197 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2115 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 195 births with the name.

Zora across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#1195 (2021)	#2115 (2024)	21 of 26	195 (1999–2024)	28 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4747 (2015)	#1533 (2023)	#2671 (2024)	9 of 10	79 (2015–2024)	16 (2023)

Zora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zora in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	32	7 of 10	5
2010s	63	8 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	97	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Zora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2115	13	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1692	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1195	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1507	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #677, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 5 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Dasha · #677, 18y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

Zora was ranked #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zora without appearing here.

Zora moved ahead of

Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4684 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1195 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1507 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1507 and #5493.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5785 and #3549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1711 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Zora

Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2328 and #2705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #2757.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3197 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #2682.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1469 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #1743.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1507 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Zora

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zora

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zora went from #3900 to #2115 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Zora across 2 official records

Zora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zora across 2 official records

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