Given name & surname
Zoja
“life”
Zoja is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Czech, Latvian, Slovak, and Slovene.
Original RussianЗоя
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zoja goes back to Ancient Greek ζωή, meaning “life.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zoja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 0 boys · 27 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,273 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,273 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 122 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.
Zoja’s family of names
In Czech usage, Zoja shares a linguistic root with Zoe. In Polish usage, Zoja has a conventional equivalent in the French form Zoé. In Polish usage, Zoja has a conventional equivalent in the German form Zoe.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Zoja has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Russianwhere Zoja comes from · 1 name
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zoja
- Zója SzékelyHungarian artistic gymnast (born 2003)
- Zoja GolubevaLatvian draughts player (born 1967)
- Zoja TrofimiukAustralian artistborn 1952
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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