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Zoya

#1,002 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zoya has been given to 4,885 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,002 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 358 recorded.

Babies named Zoya, 2025

1 in 13,200

Zoya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zoya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zoya means

Zoya is a given name.

The naming story behind Zoya

Wikidata records Zoya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q18131697, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,885 girls were recorded with the name Zoya between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 358 in 2022; its best national rank was #792 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #921 in 2020 to #1,002 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,371 in 2015 to #1,002 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.

How common is Zoya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,200
252 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,380
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,002
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zoya 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,120 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zoya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zoyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zoya was born before 2016 — so the typical Zoya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (1,931).

Is Zoya 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
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−81
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+369
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.4%
Peak was 2022 (358)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#792
2022

Spellings of Zoya

Zoya is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 8.5% against Zoya's 0.22%.

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 Zoya is used

Across 2016–2025, Zoya was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 2,500 girls, against 1 in 5,322 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

240 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 2,500
  2. 2New York1 in 2,857
  3. 3Washington1 in 3,030
  4. 4Maryland1 in 3,125
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 3,704
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 4,000
  7. 7California1 in 4,167
  8. 8Illinois1 in 4,167

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.

Geographically, Zoya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zoya around the world

Where Zoya 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
    1996–2025
    #224
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #242
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1992–2025
    #1,190
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #285
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zoya

People whose public names include Zoya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zoya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Zoya. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZoeZoeyZoiaZojaZoéZoëSoja

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Zoya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,002
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 81
Best rank ever
#792
2022
Peak year
2022
358 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,885
Count in 2025
252

Names similar to Zoya

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

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Names with a curve like Zoya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zoya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zoya

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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