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How popular is the name Zoe?
Births per year, rank history and how many Zoes are alive today.
Zoe (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 104th in 2025 with 445 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1994, when around 2,200 babies were given the name, the 30th most popular that year. Zoe's popularity is double-peaked: popular in the 1970s and stronger still at its peak in the 1990s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 53,000 babies have been named Zoe in England and Wales since 1974. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Zoe is one spelling of a name also recorded as Zoey; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Zoe you are most likely to meet is around 32 years old. Half of all Zoes born in England and Wales are between 23 and 45, and there are at least 61,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly an 18% chance that at least one of them will be called Zoe.
How many babies are named Zoe each year?
Includes all spellings: Zoe, Zoey. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Zoe spelling rank?
Where does the Zoey spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Zoe most popular?
Zoe peaked in 1994, when around 2,200 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Zoe?
At least 61,000 people named Zoe in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Zoe?
Most living Zoes are between 23 and 45; the most common age is about 32.
Is Zoe becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 1994 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.