Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Zoe is a feminine first name of Greek origin, meaning "life."
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Zoey yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Zoey's fall matches Jaxon's almost exactly: 52% over the past decade, versus his 53%. Both its count and rank peaked in 2012 — 7,481 births, #20 nationally — before easing to 3,600 and #59 by 2024.
Records for this spelling start in 1967, decades later than the more traditional "Zoe" spelling covered in an earlier batch.
Actor Zoey Deutch is the only bearer in the enrichment data, her career beginning right around the name's own 2012 peak — no other namesake shows up anywhere in the record.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 6 | #6,800 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,993 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,320 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,665 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,719 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,171 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,214 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,564 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,747 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,059 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,823 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,898 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,302 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,611 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,611 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,065 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,285 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,362 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,598 |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,206 |
| 1993 | 138 | #1,253 |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,258 |
| 1995 | 219 | #875 |
| 1996 | 339 | #656 |
| 1997 | 407 | #573 |
| 1998 | 478 | #528 |
| 1999 | 563 | #468 |
| 2000 | 691 | #410 |
| 2001 | 822 | #363 |
| 2002 | 1,182 | #268 |
| 2003 | 1,469 | #221 |
| 2004 | 1,622 | #208 |
| 2005 | 2,275 | #152 |
| 2006 | 2,858 | #119 |
| 2007 | 3,044 | #112 |
| 2008 | 3,449 | #98 |
| 2009 | 3,995 | #75 |
| 2010 | 5,219 | #47 |
| 2011 | 6,407 | #28 |
| 2012 | 7,481 | #20 |
| 2013 | 7,256 | #24 |
| 2014 | 7,440 | #22 |
| 2015 | 6,975 | #23 |
| 2016 | 6,478 | #26 |
| 2017 | 6,074 | #28 |
| 2018 | 5,943 | #29 |
| 2019 | 5,685 | #31 |
| 2020 | 5,384 | #32 |
| 2021 | 5,215 | #38 |
| 2022 | 4,512 | #45 |
| 2023 | 4,054 | #51 |
| 2024 | 3,600 | #59 |
