Zoe

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Zoe boys named Zoe

By the numbers

Total US births

163,853

Estimated living today

159,000

Median age today

14

Peak year

2012

Best rank

30th

Rank in 2025

31st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

163,256 / 597

How old the living Zoes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 163,853 babies given the name since 1880, about 159,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 99,000 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Zoes

• Zoe Saldaña (born 1978)American actress, dancer, and model
• Zoë Kravitz (born 1988)American actress, director, singer and model
• Zoe Porphyrogenita (978–1050)Byzantine Empress
• Zoe Kazan (born 1983)American actress
• Zoe (born 1996)Austrian actress and singer
• Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949)American-born British actress
• Zoe Karbonopsina (900–1000)Byzantine Emperor's wife
• Zoe Sugg (born 1990)British vlogger

People named Zoe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Zoe is most common

• CA22,597
• TX17,829
• NY11,215
• FL8,454
• IL6,290
• PA5,288
• GA4,891
• NC4,722
• OH4,689
• NJ4,490

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zoe is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Colorado (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×), Alaska (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2012

The most popular girls’ names the year Zoe peaked:

• Sophia
• Emma
• Isabella
• Olivia
• Ava
• Emily

All the names of 2012

Zoe elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Zoe: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Zoe is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.55% of children were given it – 80 of them.

Zoe: rank by region

In 2025, Zoe was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Zoe was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Zoe was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Zoe was given 2 times or more in 11 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zoe appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (Zoé, 4th), Province of Namur (Zoé, 13th), Province of Liège (Zoé, 20th), Province of Hainaut (Zoé, 24th), Brussels-Capital Region (Zoé, 29th), Province of Luxembourg (Zoé, 35th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Zoé, 59th), Province of East Flanders (Zoë, 86th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Zoë, 86th), Province of Antwerp (Zoë, 108th), Brussels-Capital Region (Zoe, 132nd), Province of Limburg (Zoë, 138th), Province of West Flanders (Zoë, 160th) and Province of East Flanders (Zoé, 250th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Zoe by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Zoe among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Zoe lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 12,238 women called Zoe were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Zoey
• Zoee
• Zoei
• Zoelle

Zoe against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Zoe vs Zoey
• Zoe vs Zoee
• Zoe vs Zoei
• Zoe vs Zoelle

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