Zoya
Zoya was given to 252 girls in 2025, #1,002 among girls’ names; 4,885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Zoya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zoya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zoya?
#1,002 among girls’ names, 2025
Zoya rose from #1,371 in 2015 to #1,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.16 per 1,000.
358 babies in 2022, the peak
Zoya peaked in 2022, when 358 girls were given it, #792 among girls’ names. The 252 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 252 | #1,002 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 266 | #977 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 311 | #861 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 358 | #792 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 267 | #974 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 282 | #921 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 220 | #1,112 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 219 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 202 | #1,203 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 219 | #1,151 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 173 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 225 | #1,127 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 222 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,454 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,823 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,956 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,437 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,138 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,461 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,638 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,455 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,540 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,733 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,157 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,310 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,729 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,090 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,229 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,174 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,685 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,659 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zoya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zoya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zoya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zoya, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,885 Americans ever recorded as Zoya. The median Zoya alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 5,052 people named Zoya (5,040 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 236 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,200 |
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 Zoya born?
The states with the most babies named Zoya are California, New York and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 42 | #753 | 1.2× |
| New York | 31 | #547 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,036 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 16 | #451 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 12 | #796 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #773 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 9 | #842 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #1,014 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,034 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 8 | #650 | 1.2× |
Where Zoya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zoya is most over-represented in New York: since 1963 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 Zoya 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, Zoya is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 252 of their 9,643 babies (2.6%), the third 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 Zoya
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 Zoya and names like it
- Compare Zoya and ZoeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZoya peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zoya since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zoya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zoya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.