Zooey

Where Zooey comes from

The dictionaries list Zooey as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zoë — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2003
    First appearance
    #13,844 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2012
    Peak, #1,249
    194 babies named Zooey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,340.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zoë.
Namesakes

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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.