Zoa
Zoa was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,541 among girls’ names; 616 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zoa?
#6,541 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoa rose from #12,991 in 2015 to #6,541 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 11.2 per million.
29 babies in 2023, the peak
Zoa peaked in 2023, when 29 girls were given it, #4,741 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,541 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,244 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,741 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,979 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,624 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,238 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,341 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,754 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,833 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,861 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,991 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,914 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,132 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,187 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,170 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,263 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,664 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,412 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,180 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #18,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #7,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,327 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,044 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,192 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,800 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,460 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,141 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,614 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,824 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,142 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,396 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,164 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,592 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,594 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,235 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 14 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 11 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 9 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 13 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 13 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 8 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #677 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoa, and how old are they?
An estimated 273 Americans named Zoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 377 people named Zoa (352 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 300,330 babies since 1880, Zoa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 9,636 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zoa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zoa and names like it
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