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Baby names, their meanings and histories

Names with a story to tell. Explore a meaning, follow a history, or find a spelling that feels right. Keep the names you want to come back to in your Shortlist.

Researched from sources, checked in a separate review, with uncertainty stated plainly.

A name’s language of use and its derivation tell different parts of its story. Choose either or both.

Zoe to Zora.

  1. Zoe

    Girl

    Life, in Greek. Zoe comes from the Greek word zōē, meaning “life.”

  2. Zora

    Girl

    A Slavic name for dawn. Zora means “dawn” in several South and West Slavic languages, including Croatian, Czech and Slovak.

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