Meaning not yet researched.
Zoey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,427 in 2025. Its best rank was #20 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #20 in 2012; #69 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Zoey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#69 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #20.
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Zoey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,427 girls in 2025. Peak: #20 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 7,482 (2012).
In 2025, 3,427 US girls were named Zoey, making it the 69th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #59 in 2024. That is 186 fewer than the 3,613 girls named Zoey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #20, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,482. For comparison, it was #23 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zoey in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 115,562 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 65,060 babies named Zoey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 50,412 US girls were named Zoey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 6,481. In 2025 that was about 1 in 469 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zoey ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #46 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 41 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Zoe (163,853 babies since 1880), Zoya (4,885 babies since 1880), Zoie (11,182 babies since 1880) and Zoee (2,128 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zuhey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zuhey (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zoey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 124 | #46 | #27 |
| Nevada | 37 | #50 | #19 |
| North Dakota | 15 | #52 | #44 |
| New Mexico | 20 | #58 | #28 |
| Alaska | 10 | #59 | #31 |
| Maryland | 59 | #60 | #45 |
| Montana | 14 | #61 | #20 |
| South Dakota | 15 | #61 | #18 |
| Illinois | 129 | #62 | #35 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #62 | #32 |
| California | 421 | #64 | #34 |
| New Jersey | 107 | #64 | #57 |
| Georgia | 119 | #65 | #23 |
| Pennsylvania | 137 | #66 | #35 |
| North Carolina | 131 | #66 | #29 |
| Oregon | 43 | #66 | #28 |
| Ohio | 129 | #67 | #23 |
| Minnesota | 68 | #69 | #32 |
| Wisconsin | 64 | #71 | #29 |
| Massachusetts | 73 | #73 | #56 |
| Florida | 210 | #73 | #26 |
| New York | 183 | #74 | #47 |
| Indiana | 77 | #74 | #21 |
| Washington | 77 | #76 | #36 |
| Kansas | 37 | #76 | #17 |
| Virginia | 83 | #80 | #32 |
| West Virginia | 18 | #82 | #15 |
| Connecticut | 32 | #83 | #52 |
| Colorado | 60 | #83 | #19 |
| Mississippi | 26 | #85 | #14 |
| Louisiana | 42 | #85 | #24 |
| Utah | 50 | #85 | #35 |
| Nebraska | 23 | #89 | #15 |
| Iowa | 33 | #89 | #11 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #90 | #59 |
| Arizona | 64 | #91 | #22 |
| Kentucky | 46 | #91 | #23 |
| Texas | 297 | #94 | #25 |
| Tennessee | 77 | #96 | #22 |
| Delaware | 9 | #97 | #17 |
| South Carolina | 43 | #100 | #27 |
| Missouri | 58 | #102 | #21 |
| Idaho | 20 | #107 | #27 |
| Alabama | 40 | #115 | #24 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #118 | #60 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #127 | #12 |
| Arkansas | 22 | #138 | #24 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #167 | #16 |
| Maine | 7 | #175 | #70 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,427 | #69 | 6 | #11,998 |
| 2024 | 3,613 | #59 | — | — |
| 2023 | 4,061 | #51 | 5 | #14,200 |
| 2022 | 4,516 | #45 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5,217 | #38 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5,388 | #32 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5,686 | #31 | 6 | #12,140 |
| 2018 | 5,946 | #29 | 9 | #8,814 |
| 2017 | 6,077 | #28 | 8 | #9,690 |
| 2016 | 6,481 | #26 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6,977 | #23 | 14 | #6,323 |
| 2014 | 7,440 | #22 | 11 | #7,558 |
| 2013 | 7,258 | #24 | 9 | #8,781 |
| 2012 | 7,482 | #20 | 9 | #8,859 |
| 2011 | 6,407 | #28 | 12 | #7,006 |
| 2010 | 5,220 | #47 | 8 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 3,995 | #75 | 7 | #10,984 |
| 2008 | 3,450 | #98 | 8 | #9,866 |
| 2007 | 3,044 | #112 | 11 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 2,858 | #119 | 17 | #5,302 |
| 2005 | 2,275 | #152 | 13 | #6,223 |
| 2004 | 1,622 | #208 | 12 | #6,519 |
| 2003 | 1,469 | #221 | 6 | #10,890 |
| 2002 | 1,182 | #268 | 9 | #7,639 |
| 2001 | 822 | #363 | 5 | #12,300 |
| 2000 | 691 | #410 | 6 | #10,345 |
| 1999 | 563 | #469 | — | — |
| 1998 | 478 | #528 | 11 | #5,839 |
| 1997 | 407 | #573 | 7 | #8,107 |
| 1996 | 339 | #656 | — | — |
| 1995 | 219 | #875 | — | — |
| 1994 | 138 | #1,250 | 5 | #10,243 |
| 1993 | 138 | #1,253 | 9 | #6,226 |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,598 | 7 | #7,265 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,064 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,612 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,303 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,898 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,823 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,060 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,747 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,564 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,213 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,170 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,664 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,384 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,802 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).