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Zoja

#17,269 in 2025Girls' name

Transliteration of Зо́я

Zoja has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #17,269 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Zoja, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoja: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Зо́я

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zoja means

Zoja is a transliteration of Зо́я.

Origin, language, and formation

Zoja is used in Czech, Latvian, Slovak and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Зо́я and Zoe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Zoja is pronounced [ˈzoja].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Zoja between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2021; its best national rank was #15,233 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,508 in 2020 to #17,269 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 Zoja?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,269
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoja 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zojas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoja was born before 2021 — so the typical Zoja is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
81.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Zoja 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+239
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2021 (6)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#15,233
2021

Spellings of Zoja

Zoja is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 11.9% against Zoja's <0.01%.

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.

Zoja around the world

Where Zoja 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 & Wales
    2008–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #885
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Zoja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,269
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 239
Best rank ever
#15,233
2021
Peak year
2021
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Zoja

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

Pooja

Sibling names for Zoja

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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