Zoe

Where Zoe comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Zoe.

  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Zoe through the years
  1. 978
    Zoe Porphyrogenita born
    Byzantine Empress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #333 among girls, with 23 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1983
    Zoe Kazan born
    American actress
  4. 2024
    Peak, #29
    5,733 babies named Zoe, its best rank.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
Namesakes
  • Zoe Porphyrogenita · Byzantine Empress, 978–1050
  • Zoe Kazan · American actress, born 1983
  • Zoe · Austrian actress and singer, born 1996
  • Zoe Karbonopsina · Byzantine Emperor's wife, 900–1000
  • Zoe Sugg · British vlogger, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.