Zooey
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 194 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,106since 2003
Zooey over time
Rank among girls' names. Zooey has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,866 | 59 |
| 2015 | #2,340 | 79 |
| 2014 | #1,853 | 109 |
| 2013 | #1,565 | 138 |
| 2012 | #1,249 | 194 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 |
| 2009 | #3,126 | 54 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
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| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zooey! It came in at #13,844, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2005, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zooey is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,191 · 1 in 8,305
- Texas#1,613 · 1 in 11,991
- New York#2,209 · 1 in 18,554
Best ever in a state: #585 in Wisconsin, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,191 | 25 | 1 in 8,305 |
| Texas | #1,613 | 13 | 1 in 11,991 |
| New York | #2,209 | 5 | 1 in 18,554 |
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See more about Zooey
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 6,445 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #11,932)
- 9,592 spots since 2015 (#2,340 → #11,932)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2012 at #1,249 (194 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,078 girls born in 2012 were named Zooey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 82.0% of all girls named Zooey (907) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 100 | #3,126 (2009) | #10,355 |
| 2010s | 907 | #1,249 (2012) | #2,522 |
| 2020s | 99 | #4,833 (2021) | #8,182 |
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.
Zooey in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 16,288 of them was named Zooey, which outranked 90.5% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,840Yulissa109
- #1,840Zariya109
- #1,840Zia109
- #1,857Zooey108
- #1,857Aarya108
- #1,857Amaria108
- #1,857Anushka108
- #1,874Aislinn107
- #1,874Amarie107
- #1,874Brooklynne107
Tied with 16 names at #1,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.