Zoie
Zoie was given to 177 girls in 2025, #1,271 among girls’ names; 11,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Zoie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zoie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zoie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zoie?
#1,271 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoie fell from #762 in 2015 to #1,271 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.11 per 1,000.
531 babies in 2006, the peak
Zoie peaked in 2006, when 531 girls were given it, #556 among girls’ names. The 177 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,271 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,368 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,215 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 263 | #986 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 264 | #967 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 292 | #908 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 323 | #842 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 323 | #844 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 315 | #893 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 371 | #762 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 367 | #763 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 432 | #662 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 517 | #567 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 523 | #559 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 508 | #579 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 500 | #603 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 494 | #622 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 527 | #570 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 531 | #556 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 502 | #570 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 515 | #554 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 449 | #608 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 438 | #590 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 439 | #583 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 320 | #728 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 257 | #843 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 225 | #928 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 155 | #1,183 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 147 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,452 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,993 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,030 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,929 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,296 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,029 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,293 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,576 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,553 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,992 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,328 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,302 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,556 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,412 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,964 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,232 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoie, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,182 Americans ever recorded as Zoie. The median Zoie alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 8,712 people named Zoie (8,693 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,851 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 475 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,650 |
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 Zoie born?
The states with the most babies named Zoie are Texas, California and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,265 | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,649 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #877 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,525 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,137 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #613 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,885 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,356 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,031 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,125 | 1.3× |
Where Zoie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoie is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Zoie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zoie?
Zoie is a less common spelling of Zoey: SSA has recorded 11,182 Zoie and 115,562 Zoey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 300,820 babies since 1880, Zoie is the third most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 177 of their 9,625 babies (1.8%), the fourth 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 Zoie
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 Zoie and names like it
- Compare Zoie and ZoeyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZoie peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoie since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zoie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zoie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.