Zoya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zoya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zoya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #162 in 2020, and it stood at #209 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#162highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#1045
1998	#724
1999	#816
2000	#728
2001	#605
2002	#599
2003	#607
2004	#495
2005	#530
2006	#558
2007	#458
2008	#363
2009	#299
2010	#279
2011	#285
2012	#220
2013	#175
2014	#203
2015	#218
2016	#215
2017	#248
2018	#201
2019	#200
2020	#162
2021	#185
2022	#178
2023	#193
2024	#209

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #209 among girls in England and Wales, #384 among girls in Scotland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #162 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #209 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zoya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,523 births with the name.

Zoya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zoya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#162 (2020)	#209 (2024)	29 of 29	4,523 (1996–2024)	312 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#375 (2020)	#736 (2024)	13 of 17	82 (2008–2024)	10 (2020)

Zoya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zoya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	97	4 of 10	24
2000s	730	10 of 10	73
2010s	2,332	10 of 10	233
2020sbusiest	1,364	5 of 10	273

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 273 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 73, from 229 to 302.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zoya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #162 in England and Wales in 2020.

Zoya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#209	231	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#193	257	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#178	287	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#185	277	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#162	312	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#200	247	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#201	258	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#248	200	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#215	244	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#218	241	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#203	262	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#175	302	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#220	229	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#285	172	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#279	177	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#299	157	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#363	121	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#458	88	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#558	63	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#530	64	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#495	67	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#607	48	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#599	47	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#605	43	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#724	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1045	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#494	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #162, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 312 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aleena · #162, 30y
Seana · #162, 33y
Jaden · #164, 30y
Elli · #165, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aleena · #162, 30y
Ayah · #162, 30y
Freyja · #162, 30y
Cohan · #163, 25y

Zoya was ranked #162 in England and Wales · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zoya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zoya without appearing here.

Zoya moved ahead of

Janet Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1045 and #1045 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #724 and #1571.
Carol Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1045 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #724 and #1480.
Barbara Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1045 and #1045 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #724 and #1392.
Tracy Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1045 and #820 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #724 and #1392.

Moved ahead of Zoya

Astrid Compare
In 2023 they stood at #420 and #458 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #736 and #504.
Blake Compare
In 2022 they stood at #420 and #559 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2023 that had become #445 and #316.
Olive Compare
In 2014 they stood at #203 and #210 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #218 and #176.
Ivy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #495 and #758 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #530 and #494.

Moved the opposite way to Zoya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zoya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zoya went from #1031 to #209 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #162 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zoya

Zoya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zoya across 2 official records

Zoya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zoya across 2 official records

Zoya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Zoya moved ahead of

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