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Zoraya

#4,984 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zoraya has been given to 573 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,984 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Zoraya, 2025

1 in 123,000

Zoraya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoraya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zoraya means

Zoraya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zoraya is used in English and Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zoraya is pronounced /θoˈɾaʝa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 573 girls were recorded with the name Zoraya between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,984 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,552 in 2020 to #4,984 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,447 in 2015 to #4,984 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 Zoraya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,984
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoraya 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 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoraya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zorayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoraya was born before 2010 — so the typical Zoraya is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
573
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Zoraya 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
+1,177
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,568
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,463
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (27)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,984
2025

Spellings of Zoraya

Zoraya is not the most common spelling — Zora is, with 19.8% against Zoraya's 1.1%.

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 Zoraya is used

Across 1910–2025, Zoraya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 496,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Zoraya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zoraya around the world

Where Zoraya 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
    2016–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Zoraya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,984
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,568
Best rank ever
#4,984
2025
Peak year
2025
27 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
573
Count in 2025
27

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

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