Zoé
given name · Latin script
Meaning: griego; zōḗ 'vida', del tema indoeuropeo de 'vivir, nacer'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɔe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zoé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 76th most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zoé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 693 (inferred from the name graph)
125,886 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zoe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AR Argentina and 2 more and Zoë in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
griego; zōḗ 'vida', del tema indoeuropeo de 'vivir, nacer'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zoé is read(measured from records)
Zoé is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French88%
Sur le verbe signifiant vivre, les Grecs ont formé le prénom Zoé qui désigne aussi un crustacé presque microscopique.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Du grec zôê, « vie ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec zōê, « vie ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec zōē, « vie ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Spanish8.7%
griego; zōḗ 'vida', del tema indoeuropeo de 'vivir, nacer'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 125,886 | 1 in 2.6K | 125K | Zoe | 496 |
| GB United Kingdom | #241 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 471 | Zoe | 321 |
| AR Argentina | #400 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 3.5K | Zoe | 87 |
| AU Australia | #241 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 579 | Zoe | 263 |
| FR France | #469 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 68K | Zoé | 210 |
| HU Hungary | — | 14,097 | 1 in 693 | 14K | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | #664 | 11,632 | 1 in 1.5K | 12K | Zoë | 88 |
| HK Hong Kong | #76 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zoe | 82 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,978as Zoja | 1 in 706 | 3.1K | — | 4 |
125,886 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zoé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Vida
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zoé Oldenbourgb. 1916FRRussian-born French historian and novelist (1916-2002)
- Zoé Valdésb. 1959CUCuban writer
- Zoe Konstantopouloub. 1976GRGreek politician
- Zoe Katsatoub. 1976GRGreek actress
- Zoé Félixb. 1976FRFrench actress
- Zoé Bruneaub. 1981FRFrench actress
- Zoe Sidelb. 1994USAmerican actress and producer
- Zoé De Grand Maisonb. 1995CAactress
- Zoé Heranb. 1999FRFrench actress
- Zoe ZaoutzainaTRByzantine empress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 68K | #30 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 14K | #87 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2021 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2018 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2020 | 1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2019 | 989 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2022 | 956 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2017 | 895 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2023 | 861 | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2024 | 786 | — |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2024 | 786 | #3 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F) | 2025 | 722 | #3 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zoé?
- A machine transcription gives /zɔe/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Zoé a male or female name?
- Zoé is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zoé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 126 thousand people named Zoé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoe.
- Where is Zoé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoé is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 693 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Zoé mean?
- Recorded meaning: griego; zōḗ 'vida', del tema indoeuropeo de 'vivir, nacer'
- What are other forms of the name Zoé?
- In the etymology graph, Zoey, Zoie and Zoja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zoé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125,886 people named Zoé in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Zoé compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Zoé is the 76th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zo%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zoé” — the 76th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.