Zoa
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 1884 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 616since 1880
Zoa over time
Rank among girls' names. Zoa has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
| 1946 | — | |
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| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
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| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 |
| 1936 | — | |
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| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 |
| 1919 | #2,515 | 13 |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 |
| 1915 | #2,050 | 15 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,438 | 7 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,263 | 7 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,202 | 8 |
| 1894 | #1,136 | 8 |
| 1893 | #1,091 | 8 |
| 1892 | #1,017 | 9 |
| 1891 | #1,006 | 8 |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 |
| 1889 | #687 | 14 |
| 1888 | #793 | 11 |
| 1887 | #788 | 9 |
| 1886 | #633 | 13 |
| 1885 | #921 | 6 |
| 1884 | #583 | 13 |
| 1883 | #920 | 5 |
| 1882 | #678 | 8 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #628 | 8 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Zoa was already there! It came in at #628, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zoa is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Zoa
- 607 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #6,325)
- 3,221 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #6,325)
- 5,510 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 337 spots in 1884 (#920 → #583)
- Biggest drop: 412 spots in 1890 (#687 → #1,099)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1884 at #583 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1882–1889
- Highest: 1 in 9,925 girls born in 1884 were named Zoa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.7% of all girls named Zoa (109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | #583 (1884) | #737 |
| 1890s | 61 | #1,006 (1891) | #1,151 |
| 1900s | 17 | #1,438 (1902) | #1,792 |
| 1910s | 92 | #1,981 (1912) | #2,478 |
| 1920s | 56 | #2,872 (1926) | #3,702 |
| 1930s | 21 | #3,146 (1937) | #3,551 |
| 1940s | 21 | #4,622 (1942) | #4,830 |
| 1950s | 15 | #5,673 (1953) | #6,001 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #9,750 (1978) | #9,750 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 35 | #11,417 (2006) | #13,755 |
| 2010s | 97 | #7,409 (2018) | #10,918 |
| 2020s | 109 | #4,655 (2023) | #6,750 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zoa in 1889
Top girls' names in 1889
More about 1889
girls
178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 12,740 of them was named Zoa, which outranked 53.5% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).