Zoe
Zoe is ranked 29th among girls in 2024 (5,719 births). Its best rank was 29th, in 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #29up 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,7190.35% of girls
- Peak year
- 20126,466 births
- Best rank
- #29in 2024
- Since 1880
- 157,579people given the name
The story in the numbers
157,579 girls have been named Zoe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 6,466 births — 0.37% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 25 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zoe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 281 | |
| 1890s | 323 | |
| 1900s | 239 | |
| 1910s | 466 | |
| 1920s | 694 | |
| 1930s | 735 | |
| 1940s | 569 | |
| 1950s | 1,109 | |
| 1960s | 953 | |
| 1970s | 1,122 | |
| 1980s | 1,998 | |
| 1990s | 16,791 | |
| 2000s | 48,755 | |
| 2010s | 58,091 | |
| 2020s | 25,453 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Zoe was the 30th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Zoe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dariannapeak 2013
- Emaripeak 2013
- Madelynnpeak 2009
- Niahpeak 2013
- Oliviapeak 2014
- Amonipeak 2012
- Aliyahpeak 2011
- Myraclepeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.