Zoran

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Zoran är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat till ordet zora ’gryning’.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 78(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 239
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 440

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zoran itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈89,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZoranLatin(measured from records)
ЗоранCyrillic(measured from records)
ΖορανGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Зоран in MK North Macedonia.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Zoran är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat till ordet zora ’gryning’. Vanliga kvinnonamn, bildade till samma ord, är Zora, Zorka och Zorica.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zoran counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Zoran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#4≈89,000 est.≈1 in 78listedZoran121
HR Croatia#5217,7111 in 23918KZoran142
MK North Macedonia#1014,506as Зоран1 in 14715KЗоран63
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#2≈8,700 est.≈1 in 440—Zoran50
SI Slovenia#1064,1541 in 5064.2KZoran48

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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 name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Zorán, Zoràn

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zoràn, Zorán

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    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(measured from records)

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 wordkurdi.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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Zora Neale Hurston, b. 1891Zoran Slavnić, b. 1949Zoran Đinđić, b. 1952Zoran Janković, b. 1953Zoran Filipović, b. 1953Zoran Milanović, b. 1966Zoran Mamić, b. 1971Zoran Zaev, b. 1974Zoran Tošić, b. 1987Zoran Dragić, b. 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(measured from records)

Attested in 60 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Zoran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202118K#45
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202115K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20254.2K#65
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—4.1K#129
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)19947—

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zoran mean?
Recorded meaning: Zoran är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat till ordet zora ’gryning’.
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.
In which country does Zoran have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 89 thousand people named Zoran in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoran.
How common is the name Zoran?
In Croatia, the national register counted 17,711 people named Zoran in 2021, about 1 in 239 residents.
How common is Zoran compared with other names?
In Serbia, Zoran is the 4th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Zoran?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoran

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zoran” — the 4th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Zoran parses inside a full name →