Zoe
Nationally, Zoe lands at #31 for 2025, and it is climbing. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 163,256 American children have carried it so far.
What Zoe carries
Zoe’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Zoe, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Zoe since 1880
Zoe peaked in 2012 at #30; #31 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Zoe is most common
The state that gives Zoe most often, per girls born there, is District of Columbia (1.54% in 2025); Vermont and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Zoe
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Chloe
#23 in 2025 · Greek
Leo
#19 in 2025 · Greek
Elena
#42 in 2025 · Greek
Penelope
#22 in 2025 · Greek
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Sophie
#55 in 2025 · Greek
Sebastian
#16 in 2025 · Greek
Angel
#67 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with Z · Greek names · all names
About Zoe
How common is Zoe today?
Nationally, Zoe lands at #31 for 2025, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Zoe have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “life”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Zoe?
Nearest by the published recipe: Chloe, Leo and Elena. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Zoe’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Zoe earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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