Zorka

Girls' name

Diminutive of Zora

Zorka has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1915, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Zorka, 1929

1 in 365,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zorka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Zora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zorka means

Zorka is a diminutive of Zora.

Origin, language, and formation

Zorka is used in Czech and Old Czech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Zorka is pronounced [ˈzorka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Zorka between 1914 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,202 in 1914.

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 Zorka?

Zorka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929: 1 in 365,000; 6 of 2,192,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 186,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1929: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 253,243 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zorka 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 1929 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 253,243 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zorka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zorkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zorka was born before 1919 — so the typical Zorka is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Zorka 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 1915 (6)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,202; 1914

Spellings of Zorka

Zorka is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 29.1% against Zorka's <0.01%.

Norma29.1%278,071
Nora20.2%193,138
Cora16.3%156,028
Dora11.1%105,930
Lora5.5%52,235
Ora4.1%39,278
Lorna3.0%28,535
Zara2.2%20,930

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.

Zorka around the world

Where Zorka 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
2016–2016
#4,763
in 2016
France
1930–1962
#1,994
in 1962
South Australia
1966–1975
#675
in 1975

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

Zorka 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: #4,202; 1914
Peak year: 1915; 6 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1929
All-time count: 45
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zorka

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

Zorya Zorie Zorria Zorii Zoria Zorina Zorah Zoriyah Zoriana Zorana Zoryana Zoryah Zorica Zory Zoraya Zoree Zorey Zorianna Zoriah Zorita Zori Zoriya Zoribel Zorrie

Sibling names for Zorka

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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