Zoa
#6,541 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zoa has been given to 616 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,541 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Zoa, 2025
1 in 184,000
Zoa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zoa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,541
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zoa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zoas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoa was born before 1928 — so the typical Zoa is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 17.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Zoa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +703
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,697
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,450
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.25×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.1%
- Peak was 2023 (29)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Zoa around the world
Where Zoa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2007–2025#2,161in 2025
- Canada2019–2023#2,824in 2023
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zoa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zoa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zoa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.