Zoia

given name · Ukrainian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Georgian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variante regional setentrional de Gioia.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 208◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 505
  • RURussia1 in 592

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈545K ●

across 14 countries

#720 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
241 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 208 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

ЗояCyrillic · Russian●1.9M records
AgataLatin · Polish●963K records
זויהHebrew · Hebrew●23K records
ᲖოიაGeorgian · Georgian●10K records
소야Hangul · Korean●71 records
โซย่าThai · Thai●5 records
ΖογιαGreek · Greek●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Зоя in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 more, Agata in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and 4 more, Zoya in BR Brazil, ES Spain, PE Peru and 4 more and זויה in IL Israel, LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

variante regional setentrional de Gioia

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zoia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#841,749,451338K rec.—#30Зоя159
UA Ukraine#79626,039623K rec.——Зоя46
PL Poland#77184,481△30K rec.1 in 208184KAgata200
US United States—125,281△26K rec.1 in 2.7K125KAgata241
BR Brazil—99,759△91 rec.1 in 2.1K100KZoya16
FR France—67,570△28 rec.1 in 1K68K—4
IL Israel#54718,19918K rec.—24זויה20
HU Hungary—14,097—1 in 69314K——
ES Spain—12,238△1.6K rec.1 in 4.1K12KZoya60
TR Türkiye—12,1441.1K rec.——Зоя11
NL Netherlands—11,551△633 rec.1 in 1.5K12KAgata46
KG Kyrgyzstan#31711,1423.1K rec.——Зоя15

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Ukrainian114K77%
  • Georgian12K8%
  • Polish11K8%
  • Romanian1.8K1%
  • English1.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Ukrainian114,11277%
Georgian11,7458%
Polish11,2918%
Romanian1,8391%
English1,7341%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zoia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5.7K records spelled Zoia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zóia, Zoïa

  • English given name3.5K records spelled Zoia11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zóia, Zoi︠a︡, Zoïa

  • French given name1.5K records spelled Zoia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Zoïa, Zoîa

  • a separate given name191 records spelled Zoia5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Also written Zoi︠a︡, Zóia, Zoi̐a, Zoïa

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zoia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "life."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020302000200520102015202029 · 2000

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Zoia in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199927
200029
200129
200229
200327
200427
200527
200625
200726
200826
200927
201026
201126
201226
201327
201423
201522
201624
201728
201827
201926
202027

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Eupraxia Mstislavna, b. 1101Zoya Voskresenskaya, b. 1907Zoya Fyodorova, b. 1909Zoya Bulgakova, b. 1914Zoé Oldenbourg, b. 1916Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, b. 1923Zoja Rudnova, b. 1946Zoia Ceaușescu, b. 1949Zoya Buryak, b. 1966Zoya Kaydanovskaya, b. 1976
  • Eupraxia Mstislavnab. 1101UAnot in their usual namea Rus' princess
  • Zoya Voskresenskayab. 1907RUnot in their usual nameRussian / Soviet author and diplomat (1907-1992)
  • Zoya Fyodorovab. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian actress (1909-1981)
  • Zoya Bulgakovab. 1914RUnot in their usual nameRussian Soviet stage actress (1914-2017)
  • Zoé Oldenbourgb. 1916FRnot in their usual nameRussian-born French historian and novelist (1916-2002)
  • Zoya Kosmodemyanskayab. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
  • Zoja Rudnovab. 1946RUnot in their usual nameSoviet table tennis player
  • Zoia Ceaușescub. 1949RORomanian mathematician (1949–2006)
  • Zoya Buryakb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
  • Zoya Kaydanovskayab. 1976RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Zoia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.8K#325
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262.8K#325
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—1.6K#286
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—392#2,966
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020363#25,865
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—259#7,392
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—229—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—213#3,358
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—132#5,611
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—81#822
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—80#9,947
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—67—

Reference works 5

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zoia?
We estimate roughly 545 thousand people bear Zoia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Zoia have the most bearers?
Zoia is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled зоя.
Where is Zoia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 208 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Zoia compared with other names?
In Russia, Zoia is the 84th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Zoia a male or female name?
Zoia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Zoia mean?
Recorded meaning: variante regional setentrional de Gioia
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zoia” — the 84th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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