Zoia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOH-ya
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Zoia is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Zoia mean?
Greek: Russian and Romanian form of Zoe
“life”
A Russian and Romanian form of Zoe, from Greek zoe 'life'.
Is Zoia a girl's or a boy's name?
Zoia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zoia in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Zoia, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Zoia of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Zoia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Zoia 6
- Zoja 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Zoia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
Names like Zoia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zofia, Croia, Zoya, Ziva, Xena, Coco, Dua, Lola, Vesper, Zelda, Ariana, Sophia
Other spellings of Zoia
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zoia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoia, updated 20 October 2026.