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Zoila

#5,915 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Zoilus

Zoila has been given to 1,904 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #5,915 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Zoila, 2025

1 in 158,000

Zoila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoila: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Zoilus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zoila means

Zoila is a feminine form of Zoilus.

Origin, language, and formation

Zoila is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zoilus and Zoilo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Zoila is pronounced /ˈθoila/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,904 girls were recorded with the name Zoila between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,822 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,309 in 2020 to #5,915 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,031 in 2015 to #5,915 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zoila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,915
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zoilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoila was born before 1984 — so the typical Zoila is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,566
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Choose a decade

1980s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Zoila 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
+1,330
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−606
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+116
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1988 (35)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,822
1929

Spellings of Zoila

Zoila is not the most common spelling — Lola is, with 15.2% against Zoila's 0.30%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zoila is used

Across 1910–2025, Zoila was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 61,144 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zoila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zoila around the world

Where Zoila 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.

  • France
    2017–2022
    #6,102
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zoila by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,915
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 606
Best rank ever
#1,822
1929
Peak year
1988
35 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,904
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Zoila

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NeilaJailaCailaAmilaNailaBailaZailaEilaAvilaDailaMailaAkilaZoiLucilaMeilaAnilaYamilaKalilaZoieeZoieShailaKeilaDelilaTehila

Sibling names for Zoila

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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