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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990girlsat 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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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.

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 1990

girls
#4,523
21 births · 1 in 90,407 girls

Top girls' names in 1990

  1. #1Jessica46,486
  2. #2Ashley45,561
  3. #3Brittany36,536
  4. #4Amanda34,413
  5. #5Samantha25,868
  6. #6Sarah25,824
  7. #7Stephanie24,864
  8. #8Jennifer22,236
  9. #9Elizabeth20,750
  10. #10Lauren20,506
  11. #4,523Zoya21
More about 1990

girls

1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 90,407 of them was named Zoya, which outranked 70.3% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zoya
  1. #4,380Ximena22
  2. #4,380Zipporah22
  3. #4,380Zulma22
  4. #4,523Zoya21
  5. #4,523Alberto21
  6. #4,523Alexie21
  7. #4,523Alicea21
  8. #4,694Abbe20
  9. #4,694Abrianna20
  10. #4,694Adair20

Tied with 170 names at #4,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. 5,592Alannah#6,531#939
  2. 1,178Symone#1,998#820
  3. 869Shelbi#1,750#881
  4. 831Latifah#1,532#701
  5. 828Skyler#1,564#736
Fallers
  1. 2,554Elizabet#524#3,078
  2. 1,572Katherin#717#2,289
  3. 652Stephani#390#1,042
  4. 504Ashanti#893#1,397
  5. 416Audrianna#759#1,175

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

See the top 100 for 1990