Zowie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOH-ee
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Zowie is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Zowie mean?
Greek: spelling of Zoe
“life”
David Bowie's son, the film director Duncan Jones, was born Zowie Bowie in 1971.
Is Zowie a girl's or a boy's name?
Zowie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zowie in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 8 girls.
Zowie in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Zowie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 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 US were named Zowie, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 65 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Zowie in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 9,389 girls in the US were given Zowie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #11, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Zowie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,119 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,815 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,195 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,376 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,164 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,313 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,562 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,494 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,602 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,877 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,881 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,197 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,359 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
Nicknames for Zowie
- Zo 6 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Zowie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zoe, Chloe, Sophie, Ellie, Maisie, Stevie, Callie, Phoebe, Jasmine, Hannah, Katie, Hallie
Other spellings of Zowie
Names related to Zowie
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Margot, Luke, Iris, Lainey, Elena, Atlas
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Zowie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zowie, updated 20 October 2026.