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Zoelle

Gender
Girl
Say it
zoh-EL
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#4,545 for girls

Zoelle is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).

What does Zoelle mean?

Greek: elaboration of Zoe with the ending -elle

“life”

Built on Zoe, from the Greek word zoe, 'life'.

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

Zoelle is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Zoelle in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,545among girls
Babies in 2025
30about 1 in 54,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 42% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Zoelle, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,966th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 71 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

Half of all the girls named Zoelle in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 71 in 20182025
Zoelle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#4,545
202436#4,038
202330#4,562
202235#4,106
202160#2,818
202054#2,966
201941#3,664
201871#2,478
201749#3,247
201654#3,060
201538#3,914
201422#5,795
201324#5,484
201219#6,573
201116#7,432
201021#6,180
200915#8,054
20088#12,574
200712#9,535
20060–
20056#14,495
20048#11,617
20035#15,777
20028#11,102
20019#10,095
20000–
19999#9,472
19986#12,420

Nicknames for Zoelle

Names like Zoelle

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Zoelle

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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, “Zoelle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoelle, updated 20 October 2026.