Zoei
Zoei was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,914 among girls’ names; 996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zoei?
#5,914 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoei fell from #4,293 in 2015 to #5,914 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 13.1 per million.
61 babies in 2014, the peak
Zoei peaked in 2014, when 61 girls were given it, #2,840 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,914 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,439 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,672 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,577 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,675 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,930 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,919 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,916 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,090 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,410 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,293 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,840 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,040 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,933 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,907 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,121 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,938 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,547 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,092 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,379 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,823 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,960 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,292 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,890 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,060 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,637 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,467 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,096 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,275 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,794 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoei, and how old are they?
An estimated 988 Americans named Zoei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 657 people named Zoei (657 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 812 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 300,820 babies since 1880, Zoei is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 9,625 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Zoei
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 Zoei and names like it
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- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Zoei.
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