Zoey

What Zoey means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zoey yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zoey?

US: Falling: down from #23 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #595 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 7,482 girls got the name (#20 that year). First in the US records in 1967.

How common

• About 1 in 469 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,611 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 895 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (6.05 per 1,000 girls), ND (5.56 per 1,000 girls), MT (4.96 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Zoey is #69 in the US and #419 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Zoey were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zoe5,646 US · 445 E&W
• Xoey31 US
• Zoi25 US · 6 E&W
• Zoee25 US
• Xoe24 US
• Zoei21 US
• Zoa18 US
• Zoeh9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zoey

Girls

• Genesis#66“creation, beginning, origin”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Khloe#272Variant of Chloe, meaning “young green shoot”^*
• Sophie#55French form of Sophia, meaning “wisdom”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Pierce#505Form of Peter, meaning “stone, rock”^*
• Zander#396Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Solomon#422“peace”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zoey’s. Rank is US 2025.