Entry № 12013 · Slavic origin

Zorya Zorya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZOR-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Slavic dawn (the morning and evening stars)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Slavic)

A name that means "slavic dawn (the morning and evening stars)".

Zorya is the Slavic word for "dawn, daybreak." Slavic mythology speaks of the Zoryas — the two (sometimes three) sister-goddesses of the morning and evening stars (Venus) who serve as guardians of the world. A third sister Zorya Polunochnaya (Midnight Star) is sometimes added.

Featured in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

Slavic dawn (the morning and evening stars) — a Slavic name.

The name in its native script.

Зоря
Transliteration
Zorya
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɔːr.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zorya stands.

Zorya 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.

Zoryas before her.

Real people
Zorya
Slavic dawn goddess.
In fiction
Zorya Vechernyaya
Featured in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
2001

Names connected to Zorya.

The number behind Zorya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zorya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.