Zori
Zori was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,985 among girls’ names; 788 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zori?
#4,985 among girls’ names, 2025
Zori fell from #3,987 in 2015 to #4,985 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 16.8 per million.
63 babies in 2017, the peak
Zori peaked in 2017, when 63 girls were given it, #2,743 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,985 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,384 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,327 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,032 | 33.5 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,676 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,337 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,922 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,495 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,743 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,775 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,987 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,716 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,073 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,105 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,539 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,875 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,806 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,390 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,545 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,278 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #13,000 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,709 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,830 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,474 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,340 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,640 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,676 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,252 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,151 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,882 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,435 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zori has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zori, and how old are they?
An estimated 782 Americans named Zori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 511 people named Zori (479 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 543 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,204 babies since 1880, Zori is the second most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 383 babies (7.0%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zori
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zori and names like it
- Compare Zori and ZoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Zori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zori alive today were born 2013-2025.
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