girl's name

Zoya

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 11,855

the United States

#1,000

2025 births

Zoya is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 252 babies in the United States, ranking #1000. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in 2022, when 358 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 13,156 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1963.

Zoya over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

1,931
'60 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Zoya by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1960s 5
1980s 36
1990s 331
2000s 846
2010s 1,931
2020s (to 2025) 1,736

How popular is Zoya?

In 2025, Zoya was given to 252 babies in the United States, ranking #1000 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Zoya is used

England & Wales #224 208 in 2025
Canada #286 105 in 2024
Scotland #392 8 in 2024
Ireland #773 4 in 2024
United States #1,000 252 in 2025
France #1,163 30 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Zoya

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Zoya also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Zoya over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Zoya in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Latvian
Zoja
Slovene
Zoja
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Zoey Zoia

Sibling names for Zoya

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Zoya — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Zoya

How popular is the name Zoya?

In 2025, Zoya was given to 252 babies in the United States, ranking #1000 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Zoya a girl's or a boy's name?

Zoya is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Zoya most popular?

Zoya peaked in 2022, when 358 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Zoya a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Zoya currently ranks #224 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.