Zoei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOH-ee
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Zoei is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
What does Zoei mean?
Greek: spelling of Zoe
“life”
Spelling of Zoe, the Greek word for life.
Is Zoei a girl's or a boy's name?
Zoei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zoei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,721st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Zoei, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,890th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 61 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Zoei in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 9,389 girls in the US were given Zoei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #11, up from #5,721 for this spelling alone.
Zoei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,613 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,890 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,850 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,852 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,053 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,379 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,231 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,807 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,004 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,900 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,867 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,074 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,891 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,447 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,669 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Nicknames for Zoei
- Zo 6 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Zoei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru, Yuri, Rumi, Yuna, Zhuri, Yumi, Suki, Kiyomi, Dakota, Miyori, Noa, Kailani
Other spellings of Zoei
Names related to Zoei
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Iris
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zoei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoei, updated 20 October 2026.