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Зоя
“life”
Зоя (Zója) is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “life.” It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Belarusian and Bulgarian and Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Zoë.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Зоя developed from Ζωή.
Зоя’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Зоя developed from the Ancient Greek form Ζωή. In Russian usage, Зоя has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form ZOJA. In Belarusian usage, Зоя has a transliteration in Zoâ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Зоя has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Зоя comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Zoeequivalent
- Zoeyequivalent
- Zoyaequivalent
- ZojaPolish
- Zoiaequivalent
- Ζωήroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- ZoéFrench
- ZoëEnglish
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People named Зоя
- Zoya KosmodemyanskayaSoviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
- Zoya FyodorovaSoviet-Russian actress (1909-1981)
- Zoya VoskresenskayaRussian / Soviet author and diplomat (1907-1992)
- Zoja RudnovaSoviet table tennis player1946–2014
- Zoya BoguslavskayaRussian literary critic1924–2026
- Zoya IvanovaSoviet athletics competitor (born 1952)
- Zoya ParfyonovaHeroine of the Soviet Union (1920-1993)
- Zoya SchleiningGerman chess playerborn 1961
- Zoya SvetovaRussian journalist and human rights defenderborn 1959
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