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Zoran

#7,188 in 2025Boys' name

Dawn

Zoran has been given to 446 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #7,188 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Zoran, 2025

1 in 276,000

Zoran over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoran: meaning, origin, and history

Dawn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zoran means

Zoran means “dawn”, associated with zòra.

Origin, language, and formation

Zoran is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Zoran is pronounced /zǒran/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 446 boys were recorded with the name Zoran between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,413 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,444 in 2020 to #7,188 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zoran?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,188
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoran sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zorans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoran was born before 2003 — so the typical Zoran is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
446
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Choose a decade

1970s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Zoran rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,291
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,744
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2020 (17)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,413
1969

Spellings of Zoran

Zoran is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 24.4% against Zoran's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zoran is used

Across 1910–2025, Zoran was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 502,028 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zoran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zoran around the world

Where Zoran ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1964–2025
    #2,276
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1900–1988
    #616
    in 1988
  • Canada
    2000–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1954–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zoran by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,744
Best rank ever
#2,413
1969
Peak year
2020
17 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
446
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Zoran

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zoran

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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