Zamora

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Zamora is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish68%

  Spain, the name of which is of Arabic origin, apparently from azemur wild olive. Zarncke see Chernyakov Zarraga Basque: topographic name for someone who lived by a slag heap, from zarra slag + the local suffix -aga.

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  Zamora (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Zamora)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English19%

  river, town, Ecuador; prov, city, Sp

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  Domenico, Bolognese painter

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Zamora is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Za’Mora, Zämörä, Zåmörå, Zâmorâ, Zämôrä

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Zamorà, Zämorä

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Zamor-A, Za-Mora

• Polish surname16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

  Also written Zámora, Замора, Zämorä, Zãmórã, Žămõřă

• Lao surname13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Philippines

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Zâmorâ, ซาโมรา, Zàmora, ซาโมร่า, Zamöra

• Russian surname11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Peru, United States

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Замора, Самора, Samora

62 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.

Zamora is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Zamora, Leon (España); Inquisiçâo de Toledo; v. Samora

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Romanian, , 1. - loan (T-Jiu) ; munte linger Busteni ; cf. vb. a zamori (a lesina de foame) 2. Zamore, munt. 1482 (Rep D 137). Coincidenta : Zamora t. spaniol, si vrajitorul Zamori (Cronograful lui Cigala din 1637). Zane/e, -ea, -u v. Z a m c 3. Zanhir v. Safir III. 5. Zantea v. Vizant e 2.

  as a name·Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

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.

• Ricardo Zamorab. 1901ESSpanish association football player (1901-1978)
• Jaime Paz Zamorab. 1939BOPresident of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993
• Iván Zamoranob. 1967CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
• Xavier Espot Zamorab. 1979ADprime minister of Andorra since 2019 (born 1979)
• Bobby Zamorab. 1981GBEnglish association football player (born 1981)
• Johnny Acostab. 1983CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican association football player
• Gerardo Arteagab. 1998MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
• John Yeboahb. 2000DEnot in their usual nameEcuadorian association football player (born 2000)
• Álvaro Zamorab. 2002CRCosta Rican footballer
• Brandon Aguilerab. 2003CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer

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).

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

What does the name Zamora mean, and where does it come from?

Spain, the name of which is of Arabic origin, apparently from azemur wild olive. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.

How do you pronounce Zamora?

A machine transcription gives /θamoɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.

In which country does Zamora have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Zamora in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zamora.

Where is Zamora most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zamora is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 173 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Zamora?

In the United States, the national register counted 61,729 people named Zamora in 2010, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.

How common is Zamora compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Zamora is the 166th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.