How Many People Are Named Zoya?
people named Zoya are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 70,500 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,885 babies named Zoya in Social Security records from 1963 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
358 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Russian and Ukrainian form of ZOE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Zoya in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Zoya alive today is about 11 years old, and 96% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 15 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Zoya first appears in the records in 1963 and was given most often in 2022, to 358 babies. In 2025, 252 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1963 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Zoya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #792, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #1,002.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,002 |
| Best rank | #792 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,250 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Zoya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Zoya were born in California than in any other state: about 774 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zoya was given 2.3 times as often in New York, 2.2 times in Virginia and 1.8 times in Illinois.
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