Zoe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zoe 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. Recorded meaning: A Greek name, instead of the Hebrew chayyah = life.
- 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 Zoe 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 Zoé in FR France 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)
A Greek name, instead of the Hebrew chayyah = life.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoe 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)
Zoe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, From Greek, meaning “life”; borne by two early saints and a Byzantine empress.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Dal greco 'vita'; nome di una santa martire a Roma (287), celebrata il 5 luglio; usato in Friuli ma raro.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Swedish, Zoe (m.fl. former) är ett grekiskt namn med betydelsen ’liv’ (zoḗ). Det användes i romar riket och var populärt hos de första kristna. Namnet togs åter i bruk i Storbritannien och USA under 1800-talet. Det har blivit populärt i Sverige de senaste årtiondena.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, In greco s vita D . Piome di una Santa, martire a Roma, 287; 5 luglio. Usato in Friuli, ma raro.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
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)
- Zoe Karbonopsinab. 900TRByzantine Emperor's wife
- Zoeb. 978TRByzantine Empress
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskayab. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
- Zoe Caldwellb. 1933AUAustralian actress (1933–2020)
- Zoë Wanamakerb. 1949USAmerican-born British actress
- Zoe Saldanab. 1978USAmerican actress, dancer, and model (born 1978)
- Zoë Bellb. 1978NZNew Zealand actress
- Zoe Kazanb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Zoe Perryb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Zoë Kravitzb. 1988USAmerican actress, director, singer and model (born 1988)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 110 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 125K | #447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.8K | #1,832 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 3.5K | #32 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 740 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 740 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 605 | #447 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 579 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 471 | #99 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 226 | #19 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 226 | #19 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 41 | #1,185 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Zoe a male or female name?
- Zoe 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 Zoe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 126 thousand people named Zoe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoe.
- Where is Zoe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoe is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 693 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Zoe mean, and where does it come from?
- A Greek name, instead of the Hebrew chayyah = life. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How common is the name Zoe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125,886 people named Zoe in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Zoe compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Zoe is the 76th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Zoe?
- In the etymology graph, Zoila, Zoya and Zoey are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zoe” — the 76th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.