Zoja
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOH-ya
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Zoja is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Zoja mean?
Greek: Polish and South Slavic form of Zoe
“life”
A Polish, Slovene and Croatian form of Zoe, from Greek zoe 'life'.
Is Zoja a girl's or a boy's name?
Zoja 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 Zoja in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Zoja, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 18 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zoja in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Zoja 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.
Zoja in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 18 | #1,763 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
Names like Zoja
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Ayla Ayra Hafsa Zainab Hiba Amira Khadija Ayah Hawa Irha Aiza
Other spellings of Zoja
Zoia
More Greek names
Luca Theodore Sophia George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Penelope Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Sophie Zoe
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, “Zoja: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zoja, updated 20 October 2026.