Zorana

Girls' name

Variant of Zora

Zorana has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Zorana, 1979

1 in 554,000

Zorana over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zorana: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Zora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zorana means

Zorana is a variant of Zora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zorana is used in Croatian and Serbian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zorana → Zora → zòra. The family’s meaning is “at dawn”, recorded in Serbo-Croatian with the source elements zòra.

Origin, language, and formation

Zorana is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Zorana is pronounced /zǒrana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 102 girls were recorded with the name Zorana between 1969 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1974; its best national rank was #4,457 in 1974.

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.

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How common is Zorana?

Zorana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979: 1 in 554,000; 6 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only: 1 in 268,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 384,320 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zorana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 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 384,320 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zorana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zoranas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zorana was born before 1974 — so the typical Zorana is around 51 today.

Median birth year: 1974; About 51 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 95.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 102; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 95.1% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Zorana 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1974 (14)
Years since peak: 51; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,457; 1974

Spellings of Zorana

Zorana is not the most common spelling — Lorena is, with 24.5% against Zorana's 0.06%.

Lorena24.5%44,960
Lorna15.5%28,535
Corina8.7%15,925
Roxana6.5%11,994
Zora5.6%10,202
Joana4.3%7,944
Johana3.8%6,967
Soraya3.7%6,811

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.

Zorana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,457; 1974
Peak year: 1974; 14 that year
First recorded: 1969
Last recorded: 1979
All-time count: 102
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zorana

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

Zoriana Zoryana Zorina Zoriyah Iolana Uliana Hasana Taiana Lilana Afsana Dhyana Viyana Livana Aidana Serana Maiana Sevana Mahana Zorya Ulyana Jiyana Mehana Sayana Sohana

Sibling names for Zorana

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

For a sister

Kesha Latricia Stephenie Tawana Joleen Danelle Joey Shanda

For a brother

Demond Erin Giuseppe Abdul Andrea Jamey Chadwick Torrey

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