Zoya

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Zoya

By the numbers

Total US births

4,885

Estimated living today

4,800

Median age today

9

Peak year

2022

Best rank

789th

Rank in 2025

1,000th

First recorded

1963

How old the living Zoyas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,885 babies given the name since 1963, about 4,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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.

Notable Zoyas

• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941)Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union
• Zoya Akhtar (born 1974)Indian film director
• Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981)Soviet-Russian actress
• Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907–1992)Russian / Soviet author and diplomat
• Zoya Afroz (born 1994)Indian Model and actress
• Zoya Ivanova (born 1952)athletics competitor
• Zoya Boguslavskaya (1924–2026)Russian literary critic
• Zoya Pirzad (born 1952)Iranian writer

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

Where Zoya is most common

• CA779
• TX527
• NY506
• IL244
• VA199
• NJ167
• WA138
• FL136
• GA134
• PA120

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zoya is most concentrated in Virginia (2.5×), Washington (2.4×), California (2.2×), Maryland (2.0×).

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

Names of 2022

The most popular girls’ names the year Zoya peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Charlotte
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Isabella

All the names of 2022

Zoya 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.

Zoya: 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.

Zoya: rank by region

In 2025, Zoya was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2021, Zoya was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

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

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zoya appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (243rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.

Zoya by city

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

Zoya 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 – 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 Zoya lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 398 women called Zoya 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 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.