Zoha
Zoha was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,166 among girls’ names; 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Zoha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zoha?
#3,166 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoha rose from #3,703 in 2015 to #3,166 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 31.7 per million.
62 babies in 2022, the peak
Zoha peaked in 2022, when 62 girls were given it, #2,791 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,166 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,223 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,046 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,791 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,156 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,060 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,083 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,074 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,064 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,706 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,703 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,715 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,216 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,707 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,548 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,958 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,941 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,082 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,082 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,350 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,367 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,735 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,040 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,762 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,061 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,394 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,888 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,827 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,829 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,774 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,422 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,432 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoha, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,108 Americans ever recorded as Zoha. The median Zoha alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Zoha (931 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 458 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 622 |
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 Zoha born?
The states with the most babies named Zoha are Texas, California and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,634 | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,531 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,378 | 1.6× |
Where Zoha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoha is most over-represented in New York: since 1993 it was given 2.0 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 Zoha 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 300,607 babies since 1880, Zoha is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 9,643 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Zoha
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 Zoha and names like it
- Compare Zoha and ZoeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZoha peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoha since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zoha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zoha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.