Zooey
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zooey is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Zooey mean?
Greek
A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zoë.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Zooey a girl's or a boy's name?
Zooey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zooey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 71% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zooey, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2012, with 194 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Zooey in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zooey in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,306 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,075 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,091 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,866 |
| 2015 | 79 | #2,340 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,853 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,565 |
| 2012 | 194 | #1,249 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,857 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,978 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,125 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
Names like Zooey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lainey Ailany Khloe Noa Oakley Poppy Lyra Haisley Paisley Kaylani Kinsley Zoe
Names related to Zooey
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, “Zooey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zooey, updated 20 October 2026.