Zoey
Zoey was given to 3,427 girls in 2025, #69 among girls’ names; 115,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 115,000 Americans named Zoey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zoey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zoey is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a phonetic spelling of Zoë.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zoey?
#69 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoey fell from #23 in 2015 to #69 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 2.1 per 1,000.
7,491 babies in 2012, the peak
Zoey peaked in 2012, when 7,491 babies were given it (7,482 girls, #20 among girls’ names). The 3,433 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,427 | #69 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 3,613 | #59 | 2.2 |
| 2023 | 4,061 | #51 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 4,516 | #45 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 5,217 | #38 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 5,388 | #32 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 5,686 | #31 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 5,946 | #29 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6,077 | #28 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6,481 | #26 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,977 | #23 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7,440 | #22 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7,258 | #24 | 4.1 |
| 2012 | 7,482 | #20 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6,407 | #28 | 3.6 |
| 2010 | 5,220 | #47 | 2.9 |
| 2009 | 3,995 | #75 | 2.2 |
| 2008 | 3,450 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 3,044 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 2,858 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 2,275 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 1,622 | #208 | 0.88 |
| 2003 | 1,469 | #221 | 0.80 |
| 2002 | 1,182 | #268 | 0.66 |
| 2001 | 822 | #363 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 691 | #410 | 0.38 |
| 1999 | 563 | #469 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 478 | #528 | 0.27 |
| 1997 | 407 | #573 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 339 | #656 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 219 | #872 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 138 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 138 | #1,251 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,204 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,592 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,357 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,279 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,059 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,607 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,608 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,897 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,821 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,745 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,562 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,211 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,168 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,718 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,662 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,801 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoey has been given almost only to girls: 230 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zoey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoey, and how old are they?
115,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 115,562 Americans ever recorded as Zoey. The median Zoey alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 81,220 people named Zoey (80,954 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 90,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 41,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 71,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zoey born?
The states with the most babies named Zoey are California, Texas and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 421 | #64 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 297 | #94 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 210 | #73 | 0.9× |
| New York | 183 | #74 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 137 | #66 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 131 | #66 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 129 | #67 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 129 | #62 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 124 | #46 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 119 | #65 | 1.0× |
Where Zoey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoey is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1967 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zoey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 300,820 babies since 1880, Zoey is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,433 of their 9,625 babies (36%), again the second 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 Zoey
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 Zoey and names like it
- Compare Zoey and ZoeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZoey peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoey since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Zoey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zoey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.