Zora vs Zoran

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Zora Zoran

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Zora for 135 years and Zoran for 9 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1880–1968 Zora ahead
• 1969–1971 Zoran ahead
• 1972–1975 Zora ahead
• 1976–1979 Zoran ahead
• 1980 Zora ahead
• 1981 Zoran ahead
• 1982 Zora ahead
• 1983 Zoran ahead
• 1985–2025 Zora ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zorans alive today are over 21; half the Zoras are over 9. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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