Zoran

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Зоран in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zoran is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name35K records spelled Zoran12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Danish

  Also written Zorán, Zoràn

• French given name13K records spelled Zoran6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Zoràn, Zorán

• a separate given name1.4K records spelled Zoran2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Serbia, United Kingdom, Slovenia

  Also written Zorán

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zoran is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Kurdish, Strength, dominance, one capable of overcoming all difficulties

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 85 years between 1919–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Zora Neale Hurstonb. 1891USnot in their usual nameAfrican American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
• Zoran Slavnićb. 1949RSbasketball player
• Zoran Đinđićb. 1952RSSerbian politician (1952−2003)
• Zoran Jankovićb. 1953SISlovenian businessman and politician, Mayor of Ljubljana
• Zoran Filipovićb. 1953MEMontenegrin association football player and manager (born 1953)
• Zoran Milanovićb. 1966HRPresident of Croatia since 2020
• Zoran Mamićb. 1971HRCroatian football player and manager
• Zoran Zaevb. 1974MKformer prime minister of North Macedonia
• Zoran Tošićb. 1987RSSerbian association football player
• Zoran Dragićb. 1989SISlovenian basketball player (born 1989)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 486 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zoran?

We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Zoran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Zoran have the most bearers?

Zoran is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled zoran.

How common is Zoran compared with other names?

In Serbia, Zoran is the 5th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Zoran a male or female name?

Zoran is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Zoran mean?

Recorded meaning: Zoran är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat till ordet zora ’gryning’.