Given name & surname
Zorica
“dawn”
Zorica is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zorica is a romanization of Зорица. Зорица goes back to a word meaning “dawn.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zorica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 564 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zorica’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Zorica is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Зорица.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Zorica
- Zorica KondžaCroatian singerborn 1960
- Zorica BrunclikYugoslavian, later Serbian, singerborn 1955
- Zorica ÐurkovićOlympic medalist in basketballborn 1957
- Zorica PavićevićYugoslav handball playerborn 1956
- Zorica JevremovićSerbian theatre and video director (1948–2023)
- Zorica VojinovićSerbian handball playerborn 1958
- Zorica MrševićSerbian legal scholarborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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