Zoie
- Pronunciation
- [Zoi-e]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Alternate Spelling: Zoe. Life.
- Origin
- Greek
About the Name Zoie
Zoie is a modern spelling of Zoe, from the Greek zoe, meaning "life" — a name carried by early Christian saints and Byzantine empresses, and one of the most luminous and life-affirming names to come down from the ancient world. The inventive -ie ending gives this vibrant name a softer, more decorative finish, recasting a classic with a contemporary, personalized look while keeping its joyful meaning fully intact.
That blend of timeless sense and fresh form is central to its appeal. Zoie reads as lively and individual, the kind of upbeat name whose meaning — life itself — feels both simple and profound. Recorded variants include Zoee, Zoey, Zoi, Zooey, and Zoya, a generous spread of spellings for the same bright sound, reflecting just how many ways parents found to make this cheerful name their own.
Zoie first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for girls in 2000 and held a place there for two decades, reaching its peak in 2004 at rank #554. It was last recorded in 2021 at #986, having stood at #907 as recently as 2019, and accumulated 9,214 girls across that run. Its long arc rode the sustained popularity of its parent name through the 2000s and 2010s — a spirited, life-affirming respelling that shared in Zoe's broad and lasting appeal.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Zoie
US Popularity History (2000–2021)
Annual US births named Zoie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2006 with 531 girls named Zoie (girl rank #556 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2021, ranked #986 for girls (263 US births). That's 430 places below its 2006 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Zoie Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Zoie the strongest states are Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana.
Strongest girls-name states
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Zoie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Zoie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Zoie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).