Zoia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variante regional setentrional de Gioia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zoia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 495as Зоя(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 843as ზოია
- LVLatvia1 in 852as Zoja
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 Zoia 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #526 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Зоя, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Зоя in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Zoya in US United States, PK Pakistan, Zoja in SI Slovenia, MD Moldova and זויה in LV Latvia.
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)
variante regional setentrional de Gioia
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #88 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | #30 | Зоя | 174 |
| US United States | — | 125,886as Zoe | 1 in 2.6K | 125K | Zoya | 278 |
| UA Ukraine | #81 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | — | Зоя | 49 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Zoya | 58 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #197 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 746 | Зоя | 46 |
| HU Hungary | — | 14,097as Zoé | 1 in 693 | 14K | — | — |
| GE Georgia | #158 | 4,741as ზოია | 1 in 843 | 4.7K | Zoia | 17 |
| SI Slovenia | #516 | 2,978as Zoja | 1 in 706 | 3.1K | Zoja | 14 |
| LV Latvia | #229 | 2,207as Zoja | 1 in 852 | 2.2K | זויה | 10 |
| MD Moldova | #372 | 1,573 | 1 in 2.1K | 1.6K | Zoja | 6 |
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; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Zoia 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.
In Russian, "life."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Eupraxia Mstislavnab. 1101UAnot in their usual namea Rus' princess
- Zoya Voskresenskayab. 1907RUnot in their usual nameRussian / Soviet author and diplomat (1907-1992)
- Zoya Fyodorovab. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian actress (1909-1981)
- Zoya Bulgakovab. 1914RUnot in their usual nameRussian Soviet stage actress (1914-2017)
- Zoé Oldenbourgb. 1916FRnot in their usual nameRussian-born French historian and novelist (1916-2002)
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskayab. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
- Zoja Rudnovab. 1946RUnot in their usual nameSoviet table tennis player
- Zoia Ceaușescub. 1949RORomanian mathematician (1949–2006)
- Zoya Buryakb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
- Zoya Kaydanovskayab. 1976RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
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 57 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1.6K | #286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 363 | #25,865 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 67 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 66 | #1,418 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 19 | #3,784 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 16 | #2,045 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 16 | #2,028 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #25,865 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Zoia mean, and where does it come from?
- variante regional setentrional de Gioia Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Is Zoia a male or female name?
- Zoia 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 Zoia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Зоя in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zoia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoia is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zoia?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 1,573 people named Zoia, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Zoia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zoia is the 88th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoiaThe 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, “Zoia” — the 88th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.