Zora is a Slavic name (Serbian, Croatian, Slovak, Russian, Czech) meaning "dawn" or "daybreak" — from the Proto-Slavic zorja. The personification of the dawn was an important figure in Slavic mythology.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the American author of the Harlem Renaissance whose novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a work of African-American literature, gave the name its modern American resonance. Today Zora sits in the U.S. top 700 and is rising.
Zora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zora reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.