Given name & surname
Zoia
“a life-giving woman; alive”
Zoia is a variant of Zoe. One Greek interpretation is “a life-giving woman; alive.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zoia is a variant of Zoe. One Greek interpretation is “a life-giving woman; alive.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Zoia is a variant of Zoe. An origin associated with Zoe is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zoia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 364 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zoia’s family of names
Zoia has a related form in Zoe. In Romanian usage, Zoia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zoë.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Zoeyequivalent
- Zoyaequivalent
- Zoieequivalent
- Zoiequivalent
- Zojaequivalent
- Sojaequivalent
- Зояequivalent
- Zoéequivalent
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People named Zoia
- Zoia CeaușescuRomanian mathematician (1949–2006)
- Zoia OvsiiUkrainian Paralympic athleteborn 1994
- Zoia HornAmerican librarian1918–2014
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.