Zoa

#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births

Peak · girls
1884 · 13 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
616
since 1880

Zoa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zoa has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201930peak #583, 1884girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,32518
2024#6,93216
2023#4,65529
2022#5,79321
2021#7,25015
2020#9,54610
2019#10,4739
2018#7,40915
2017#7,44215
2016#16,2155
2015#11,8358
2014#10,9559
2013#11,9698
2012#11,2579
2011#10,37410
2010#11,2469
2009—
2008#13,8327
2007#11,6309
2006#11,4179
2005#16,4625
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2002#15,4325
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1978#9,7505
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1959#6,2455
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1957#6,0865
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1953#5,6735
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1949#5,2445
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1947#4,7646
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1943#4,6915
1942#4,6225
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1937#3,1468
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1931#3,8486
1930#3,6587
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1928#3,7437
1927#4,2866
1926#2,87211
1925—
1924#4,4346
1923—
1922#3,6558
1921#4,0237
1920#2,89911
1919#2,51513
1918#2,82211
1917#2,87910
1916#2,13315
1915#2,05015
1914#3,1886
1913#2,5407
1912#1,9819
1911#2,1916
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1907#2,0615
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1904#1,8775
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1902#1,4387
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1899#1,3946
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1897#1,2637
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1895#1,2028
1894#1,1368
1893#1,0918
1892#1,0179
1891#1,0068
1890#1,0997
1889#68714
1888#79311
1887#7889
1886#63313
1885#9216
1884#58313
1883#9205
1882#6788
1881—
1880#6288
First appearance
1880

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 1930

No state had 5 or more girls named Zoa in 1930, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zoa
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1884 at #583 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 9 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1882–1889
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,925
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 17.7% of all girls named Zoa (109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s87#583 (1884)#737
1890s61#1,006 (1891)#1,151
1900s17#1,438 (1902)#1,792
1910s92#1,981 (1912)#2,478
1920s56#2,872 (1926)#3,702
1930s21#3,146 (1937)#3,551
1940s21#4,622 (1942)#4,830
1950s15#5,673 (1953)#6,001
1960s0——
1970s5#9,750 (1978)#9,750
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s35#11,417 (2006)#13,755
2010s97#7,409 (2018)#10,918
2020s109#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 1930

girls
#3,658
7 births · 1 in 160,847 girls

Top girls' names in 1930

  1. #1Mary64,153
  2. #2Betty38,240
  3. #3Dorothy30,411
  4. #4Helen19,913
  5. #5Margaret18,350
  6. #6Barbara18,279
  7. #7Patricia15,751
  8. #8Joan15,478
  9. #9Doris15,464
  10. #10Ruth14,942
  11. #3,658Zoa7
More about 1930

girls

1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 160,847 of them was named Zoa, which outranked 30.3% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zoa
  1. #3,345Zelphia8
  2. #3,345Zenna8
  3. #3,345Zonia8
  4. #3,658Zoa7
  5. #3,658Adair7
  6. #3,658Adalee7
  7. #3,658Adolph7
  8. #4,047Aaron6
  9. #4,047Adda6
  10. #4,047Adelma6

Tied with 388 names at #3,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1929
Risers
  1. ↑ 701Claudette#1,642 → #941
  2. ↑ 583Ardeth#1,212 → #629
  3. ↑ 445Julianne#1,339 → #894
  4. ↑ 376Sonja#1,223 → #847
  5. ↑ 374Armida#1,174 → #800
Fallers
  1. ↓ 348Ingrid#941 → #1,289
  2. ↓ 315Coralie#895 → #1,210
  3. ↓ 229Elenor#981 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 229Mammie#981 → #1,210
  5. ↓ 226Sibyl#902 → #1,128

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1930 →