Zoya

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoya 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. Recorded meaning: Vida.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 495as Зоя
  • GEGeorgia1 in 843as ზოია

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 Zoya 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)

≈160,000 named Зоя, est.

#526 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ЗояCyrillic(measured from records)
ZoiaLatin(measured from records)
זויהHebrew(measured from records)
ზოიაGeorgian(measured from records)
소야Hangul(measured from records)
โซย่าThai(measured from records)
ΖογιαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Зоя in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Zoia in GE Georgia, Zoja in SI Slovenia 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)

Vida

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zoya 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.

Where Zoya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#88≈160,000 est.≈1 in 868#30Зоя174
US United States—125,886as Zoe1 in 2.6K125KZoya278
UA Ukraine#81≈89,000 est.≈1 in 495—Зоя49
PK Pakistan—≈46,000 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Zoya58
KZ Kazakhstan#197≈19,000 est.≈1 in 1K746Зоя46
HU Hungary—14,097as Zoé1 in 69314K——
GE Georgia#1584,741as ზოია1 in 8434.7KZoia17
SI Slovenia#5162,978as Zoja1 in 7063.1KZoja14
LV Latvia#2292,207as Zoja1 in 8522.2Kזויה10

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zoya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Zoyā, Žoya, Zöyä

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Russia, Belgium

    Also written Zòyà

  • Armenian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia, Türkiye

    Also written Զոյա, Zoja

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Eupraxia Mstislavna, b. 1101Zoya Fyodorova, b. 1909Zoya Bulgakova, b. 1914Zoé Oldenbourg, b. 1916Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, b. 1923Zoja Rudnova, b. 1946Zoya Pirzad, b. 1952Zoya Buryak, b. 1966Zoya Akhtar, b. 1974Zoya Kaydanovskaya, b. 1976

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 67 sources across 38 countries.

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Zoya mean, and where does it come from?
Vida Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
Is Zoya a male or female name?
Zoya 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 Zoya have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Зоя in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
What are other forms of the name Zoya?
In the etymology graph, Zoe, Zoey and Zoie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Zoya?
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 Zoya compared with other names?
In Russia, Zoya is the 88th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Zoya” — the 88th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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