Zoey Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, Girl Names Like Zoey

Zoey Name Origin: Greek
Pronunciation: zoh-ee
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Zoey Name Meaning

With all the spunk of Chloe and the cool factor of Z, it’s no wonder that parents are loving Zoey. A variant of the Greek Zoe, Zoey means “life” or “alive.”

Despite her surge in popularity, the Zoey variation of the name is quite the modern newcomer, first appearing on the U.S. Top 1000 charts in 1995. Even then she didn’t crack the top 100 until 2008! This relative new popularity makes her undeniably modern regardless of her sporadic use in early history, being the name of two saints and an ancient empress. Zoey is relatively free of deep historical ties thanks to her light usage, allowing your little one to blaze a new path and leave her mark on the world.

Zoey is on-trend with the -y endings seen in Lily, Riley, and Avery, but also in a league of her own thanks to her use of Z. Historically the letter isn’t commonly used in females, adding some mystery and intrigue to the name that’ll set her apart from the crowd. Little Zoey is full of life, much like her meaning, vibrantly conquering each day like a warrior.

Spelling variations of the name are endless with Zoe, Zoie, and Zowie all floating about. Some other zesty Z names for girls are Zelda, Zara, and Zeva.

Zoey Name Popularity

How popular is the name Zoey? Here’s everything we know.

Year	Rank	# Births	% Births
1910	—	0	0%
1911	—	0	0%
1912	—	0	0%
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1976	2,687	5	0.0004%
1977	—	0	0%
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1987	—	0	0%
1988	3,236	6	0.0004%
1989	—	0	0%
1990	3,058	8	0.0005%
1991	1,531	53	0.0033%
1992	1,231	94	0.0059%
1993	1,205	93	0.006%
1994	1,423	65	0.0042%
1995	915	157	0.0104%
1996	674	282	0.0188%
1997	572	362	0.0245%
1998	530	436	0.0291%
1999	475	508	0.0339%
2000	408	663	0.0434%
2001	353	812	0.0539%
2002	268	1,158	0.0773%
2003	221	1,455	0.0956%
2004	207	1,610	0.1056%
2005	152	2,266	0.1482%
2006	118	2,845	0.1817%
2007	112	3,029	0.192%
2008	98	3,439	0.2225%
2009	75	3,993	0.2672%
2010	47	5,207	0.3613%
2011	28	6,399	0.4491%
2012	20	7,466	0.5239%
2013	24	7,238	0.5084%
2014	22	7,401	0.508%
2015	23	6,941	0.477%
2016	26	6,438	0.4465%
2017	29	6,026	0.4318%
2018	29	5,891	0.4288%
2019	31	5,640	0.4166%
2020	32	5,227	0.4107%
2021	37	4,860	0.3976%
2022	45	4,488	0.3402%

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Data via SSA.gov.

Names Like Zoey

If you like Zoey, you’ll love these other names like Zoey.

What names are variants of Zoey?

Mix it up with these names that are a variation of the name Zoey.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Zoe	Life	Greek
Zoee	Life	Greek
Zoie	Life	Greek
Zooey	Life	Greek

What names sound like Zoey?

If you like how Zoey sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Zoey.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Chloe	Green sprout	Greek
Joey	Jehovah increases	Hebrew
Josey	Jehovah increases	Hebrew
Josie	God will increase	English
Josy	Jehovah increases	Hebrew
Zola	Lump of earth	Italian
Zora	Dawn	Slavic

What names are similar to Zoey?

Find a name that’s like Zoey, but just a little bit different.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Ava	To live	Latin
Avery	Elf counsel	English
Harper	Harp Player	English

Kaya	Restful place, yew tree, forgiveness; home; stone; willow, wise child; the one with the beautiful body, profile	Turkish
Penelope	Weaver	Greek
Quinn	Descendent of Conn	Irish
Riley	Rye clearing	Irish
Una	One	Latin
Zara	Blooming flower	English
Zinnia	An allusion to the flower of the same name, so designated in honor of J.	Latin

Lists With Zoey

Find inspiration in these baby girl name lists featuring the name Zoey.

Siblings of Zoey

Mamas with kids named Zoey also have kids with these names.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Jeremiah	God will exalt	Hebrew
Kade	From the wetlands	Scottish
Alice	Of nobility	German
Damien	To tame	French
Nolyn	Champion	Irish
Dajohn		American
Dajuan		American
Sterling	Genuine, of high quality	English

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32 Comments

Ashley May 5 at 7:48 am

Liked the meaning and wasn’t super common or uncomfortable non. Sounds sweet and feminine

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Ashley Mar 26 at 8:32 am

Wanted a strong name that was also gentle and sweet. My husband and I kept going back to this.

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Zoey Jan 25 at 8:02 pm

My name is Zoey and I love that it is so beautiful and perfect for me

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Kaitlyn Oct 5 at 6:31 am

My husband loved the name and I grew to love it… Especially when we matched it with my mom’s middle name Jane. It is also means life such is another reason we chose it.

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Bryanna Dec 5 at 9:12 am

I chose the name Zoey because in Greek the meaning of Zoey means life. Before I had my baby girl my mother passed away and I felt there was no meaning to the world, but she made herself known and helped me come out of a depression I’ve been in for sometime.

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Carol May 30 at 2:50 am

Zoe (actually pronounced zoh-ay) means “life” in Greek. In the Bible, when Jesus uses this word, it’s often in reference to eternal life. We know eternity has been placed on our baby girls heart already but what a good reminder to her and us that we are not just living for this Earth here and now but that our final eternal home is with Jesus in heaven!

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- Zoey Rose miller May 7 at 8:24 am
  
  Zoey is a good name for a little baby girl I was named Zoey thanks for the comment and thank you for all the nice things that you all put on this list I really love it thank you I really hope you get to understand my reading and this is not a real fake name this is actually a real name I can’t expose my number of stuff but I just get my email please don’t tell anyone if you are watching this don’t tell anyone who knows how to hack or something
  
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Willow Nov 28 at 12:49 pm

I like the name Zoey. It’s such a pretty name.

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Stephani Aug 26 at 10:29 am

Zoey means life and her middle name is Wilder, which means wild and free. It is my prayer that she lives her life wild and free of limitations. She is perfect and was born unmedicated at home! No sonograms, so no one on the planet knew if she was a born or girl, but my husband and I sensed she was a girl. Falling in love with her!

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Jacqueline Apr 22 at 7:36 pm

I always loved the name Zoey but had chosen Gia for my 1st girl. When we decided to have a 3rd baby we ended up having 2 miscarriages back to back. We ended up pregnant with a girl and I knew I wanted to name her Zoey and when I looked up the meaning life it was so fitting! Fast forward to today and the name also fits her to a T! She is spunky and absolutely full of zest and life! The name fits her perfectly! We have many nicknames for her as well… Zozo, Zocowski, Zoski, Zo, and I call her Joey sometimes because I have kids and her sister is Gia so I get tongue tied ?

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Jody Jan 14 at 8:36 pm

I named my baby girl Zoey because it means Life. I had a very difficult pregnancy. It was a high risk pregnancy from the very beginning. To make a long story short I was pregnant with two babies but lost one of them. So I decided to name her Zoey because it means Life and Life is so precious.

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Zoey Sep 22 at 10:32 am

thanks for the thoughts about my name

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Jessica Jun 20 at 4:57 am

Wanted a sweet Z name

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Rhonda Apr 19 at 8:47 am

Her original due date was July 23, 2019 which is also my sobriety date. At the time is was coming up on my 6 years clean & had a lot of turmoil in my relationship with my husband & life period, Zoey means “life” she became my “new life”

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Ashleigh Witt Apr 1 at 2:01 pm

I chose her name because it is the name of a character in one of my favorite books

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- Maddy Aug 22 at 7:36 pm
  
  Which book has the main character Zoey?
  
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  - Ashleigh Witt Nov 19 at 3:13 pm
    
    A childrens book called Spy School writtend by Stuart Gibbs. Her name in the book is Zoe, but we wanted a name with and y so we changed it to Zoey. Thx for asking though! (;
    
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Jalesia Mar 16 at 8:03 am

I chose the name Zoey because she meant life to me and my family

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Maryjane Feb 6 at 6:08 pm

I love the name Zoey I love everything about her she is the best daughter

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Jalesia Jan 26 at 12:15 pm

I like the name Zoey because it means life and she brings abundantly life to me and my family

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Red Oct 15 at 1:57 pm

I choose zoey cause it is a beautiful name

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- zoey Mar 12 at 1:31 pm
  
  thank you
  
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Jillian Sep 25 at 6:56 pm

Our sons name is Xander and we wanted something that went well with his name and Zoey wasnt a name that we heard all the time. We actually waited until she was born to choose a name for her. It fits her perfectly.

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- Krissy Feb 11 at 1:24 pm
  
  We had a Zoey, and then a few years later had a Zander – never met anyone with the same names for their kids before regardless of spellings lol- we loved the name combo of Zoey & Zander!
  
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Ashley Sep 10 at 1:17 pm

My husband and I have always loved the name Zoey we were just back and forth with the middle names. It’s always been important to me to choose a middle name that honor someone that we love. So Ann is after my husband’s grandmother and Rose is after my mother. Zoey Ann Rose ?

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Shakeidra Aug 17 at 12:37 pm

Zoey is the meaning of life and she brung so much happiness to my life

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Lexi Jul 28 at 10:46 am

i think zoey is just such a cool, spunky name while also being short and sweet.

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Brooke Jul 14 at 10:04 pm

I have always loved the name Zoey… My husband also brought the name Zoey to so we both loved them names Zoey but never told each other in till we found out we was having a little girl

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Red Jun 17 at 10:33 am

I like Zoey cause it was a cute name and fits her

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Mama Jun 13 at 6:46 pm

It means “earth” and this is the year of the earth pig in the Chinese zodiac calendar.

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Stephanie Apr 11 at 7:32 pm

When I was a little girl I wanted twin girls named Zoey and Chloe. Since we just had one girl instead of twins, we looked at the meanings of both names and liked the meaning of Zoey better. Zoey means “life” and having a child is bringing a new life into this world. Zoey is used in the Greek version of the Bible which was the representation of our faith. Her middle name is actually faith after my middle name in my mom’s first name. Zoey is easy to spell and pronounce and ahe has the same initials as my husband. We call her cute nicknames like ZoZo.

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- Opal Ereno Nov 19 at 3:16 pm
  
  OMG! We had twins and we named them CHLOE AND ZOEY!!!
  
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