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Zorica

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zorica has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Zorica, 1976

1 in 607,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zorica: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zorica means

Zorica is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zorica is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Zorica is pronounced /zôrit͡sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Zorica between 1973 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1974; its best national rank was #8,770 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zorica?

Zorica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976
1 in 607,000
5 of 3,034,007 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1976
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
420,604 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zorica 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 1976 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 420,604 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zorica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zoricas were born

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

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Zorica 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (6)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,770
1974

Spellings of Zorica

Zorica is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 44.7% against Zorica's <0.01%.

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.

Zorica around the world

Where Zorica 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.

  • France
    1966–1987
    #2,213
    in 1987
  • South Australia
    1952–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zorica 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
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Best rank ever
#8,770
1974
Peak year
1974
6 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zorica

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

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Sibling names for Zorica

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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