Zoya

#1,000 for girls in 2025, 252 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 358 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,885
since 1963

Zoya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zoya has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,000252
2024#975266
2023#857311
2022#789358
2021#972267
2020#919282
2019#1,109220
2018#1,116219
2017#1,201202
2016#1,149219
2015#1,366173
2014#1,125225
2013#1,101222
2012#1,510147
2011#1,446156
2010#1,513148
2009#1,769123
2008#1,816119
2007#1,940106
2006#2,41977
2005#2,12287
2004#2,13584
2003#2,43967
2002#2,60559
2001#2,43864
2000#2,50860
1999#2,70351
1998#3,30137
1997#3,10538
1996#2,28258
1995#2,68745
1994#6,67213
1993#4,25724
1992#4,08825
1991#5,00419
1990#4,52321
1989#5,54515
1988#7,11110
1987#11,3255
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five girls were named Zoya! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zoya is popular in 1989

No state had 5 or more girls named Zoya in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zoya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 25 spots since 2024 (#975 → #1,000)
  • 81 spots since 2020 (#919 → #1,000)
  • 366 spots since 2015 (#1,366 → #1,000)
  • Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2020 (#1,109 → #919)
  • Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2024 (#857 → #975)
Rise & fade · girls
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 2022 at #789 (358 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,581
  • Highest: 1 in 4,581 girls born in 2022 were named Zoya (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,378 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Zoya (1,931) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#6,592 (1963)#6,592
1970s0——
1980s36#5,545 (1989)#8,305
1990s331#2,282 (1996)#3,862
2000s846#1,769 (2009)#2,219
2010s1,931#1,101 (2013)#1,264
2020s1,736#789 (2022)#919

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.

Zoya in 1989

girls
#5,545
15 births · 1 in 122,903 girls

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #5,545Zoya15
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 122,903 of them was named Zoya, which outranked 61.9% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zoya
  1. #5,286Whittley16
  2. #5,286Xaviera16
  3. #5,286Yashica16
  4. #5,545Zoya15
  5. #5,545Abrielle15
  6. #5,545Adelita15
  7. #5,545Aislynn15
  8. #5,836Aaliyah14
  9. #5,836Abbe14
  10. #5,836Abbigale14

Tied with 290 names at #5,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. ↑ 9,523Audriana#10,386 → #863
  2. ↑ 7,504Martika#8,391 → #887
  3. ↑ 6,932Audrianna#7,691 → #759
  4. ↑ 3,972Elizabet#4,496 → #524
  5. ↑ 1,772Katherin#2,489 → #717
Fallers
  1. ↓ 539Diandra#905 → #1,444
  2. ↓ 524Taja#720 → #1,244
  3. ↓ 455Jonathan#999 → #1,454
  4. ↓ 445Katarina#960 → #1,405
  5. ↓ 397Caryn#816 → #1,213

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

See the top 100 for 1989 →