Zoila
Zoila was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,915 among girls’ names; 1,904 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Zoila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 20 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zoila mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Zoila is “a female given name”
Feminine form of Zoilo.
/ˈθoila/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zoila?
#5,915 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoila rose from #6,031 in 2015 to #5,915 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 13.1 per million.
35 babies in 1988, the peak
Zoila peaked in 1988, when 35 girls were given it, #2,981 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,915 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,245 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,673 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,275 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,407 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,309 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,791 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,514 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,291 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,225 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,031 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,632 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,312 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,571 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,428 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,408 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,094 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,793 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,999 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,351 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,443 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,737 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,085 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,809 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,439 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,477 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,211 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,362 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,861 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,052 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,486 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,530 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,251 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,962 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,435 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,617 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,157 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,981 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,519 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,535 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,937 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,142 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,552 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,165 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,146 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,068 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,441 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,281 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,759 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,186 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,154 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,109 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,633 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,746 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,165 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,937 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,197 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,167 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,631 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,038 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,048 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #5,005 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,016 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #4,009 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,058 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,686 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,029 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,752 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,199 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,694 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,569 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,652 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,919 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,481 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,575 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,907 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,724 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,135 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,292 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,428 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #4,022 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,799 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,191 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,027 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,345 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,416 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,339 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,431 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,372 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,153 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,156 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,107 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,487 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,747 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,842 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,822 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,621 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,283 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,303 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,615 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,999 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,968 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,376 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,664 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,395 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,247 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,820 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,080 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,413 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,791 | 7.1 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,462 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoila, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,904 Americans ever recorded as Zoila. The median Zoila alive today is 37 years old; half are between 20 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 12,487 people named Zoila (12,456 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 179 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 327 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 436 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 325 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 248 |
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 Zoila born?
The states with the most babies named Zoila are Texas, California and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 378 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 347 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 87 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zoila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoila is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 2.5 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 Zoila 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,601 babies since 1880, Zoila is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 209 babies (10%), 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 Zoila
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 Zoila and names like it
- Compare Zoila and ZolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sZoila peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoila since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zoila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Zoila.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zoila alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.