Zora

Where Zora comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Zora through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #294 among girls, with 28 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #257
    58 babies named Zora, its best rank.
  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

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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.