 A mosaic of the Empress Zoë Porphyrogenita in the Hagia Sophia. | |
| Pronunciation | /ˈzoʊ.i/ ZOH-ee; /ˈzoʊ/ ZOH |
|---|---|
| Gender | female |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Greek |
| Meaning | "life" |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Zoë, Zoey, Zoí, Zoé, Zoie, Zoee, Zoi, Zoh, Zoya, Zoia, Zoja |
| Related names | Zooey, Joey |
Zoe, Zoey, Zoie, Zoi, Zoé or Zoë (Greek: ζωή) is a female first name of Greek origin, meaning "life". It is a currently popular name for girls in many countries. It has ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in the United States since 2000.[1] It is also well used in other English-speaking countries including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, as well as in other countries including Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.[2]
Zoe is also a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
Mythology
- Zoe, the daughter of King Midas
Historical
- Zoë Porphyrogenita (fl. 978 – c. 1050), Byzantine empress
- Exuperius and Zoe, saints, martyrs (died 127)
- Zoe of Rome (died c. 286), martyred saint
- Zoe Karbonopsina (died c. 920), Byzantine empress
- Zoe Palaiologina (c. 1455–1503), wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia
- Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla (1785–1852), intimate friend and confidante of Louis XVIII
Contemporary
Arts and entertainment
- Gorilla Zoe, American rapper
- Zoë (Austrian singer) (Zoë Straub) (born 1996), Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
- Zoë (British singer) (Zoë Pollock; born 1969), English pop star
- Zoe Akins (1886–1958), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, poet and author
- Zoë Avril (born 1980), French singer
- Zoë Baird (born 1952), American lawyer, Attorney General nominee in 1993
- Zoë Ball (born 1970), English television and radio personality
- Zoë Bell (born 1978), New Zealand stuntwoman and actress
- Zoe Beloff (born 1958), New York-based artist
- Zoe Bertram, Australian actress
- Zoe Birkett (born 1985), English singer
- Zoe Boyle (born 1989), English actress
- Zoe Caldwell (1933–2020), Australian actress
- Zoe Cassavetes (born 1970), American director, screenwriter and actress
- Zoë Chao (born 1985), American actress and screenwriter
- Zoe Colletti (born 2001), American actress
- Zooey Deschanel (born 1980), American actress and musician
- Zoey Deutch (born 1994), American actress and producer
- Zoé Félix (born 1976), French actress
- Zoe Gotusso (born 1997), Argentine musician
- Zoë Heller (born 1965), English journalist and novelist
- Zoe Kazan (born 1983), American actress
- Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian-American cellist and composer
- Zoë Kravitz (born 1988), American actress, singer and model
- Zoe Laskari (1942–2017), Greek actress
- Zoë Lister (born 1982), English actress
- Zöe Lucker (born 1974), English actress
- Zoë Lund (1962-1999), American entertainer
- Zoe Lyons (born 1971), British comedian
- Zoe McLellan (born 1974), American actress
- Zoë Nathenson (born 1969), British actress
- Zoe Naylor (born 1977), Australian actress
- Zoie Palmer (born 1977), Canadian actress
- Zoë Pastelle (born 1999), Swiss actress
- Zoe Kincaid Penlington (1878–1944), Canadian-American expert on kabuki
- Zoë Poledouris (born 1973), American actress and film composer
- Zoe Saldaña (born 1978), American actress
- Zoe Salmon (born 1980), Northern Irish television presenter
- Zoë Straub (born 1996), Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
- Zoe Strauss (born 1970), American photographer
- Zoe Sugg (born 1990), English beauty blogger and vlogger
- Zoë Tapper (born 1981), English actress
- Zoe Tay (born 1968), Singaporean actress
- Zoé Valdés (born 1959), Cuban writer
- Zoe Ventoura (born 1981), Australian actress
- Zoe Verbiceanu (1893–1975), Romanian playwright and translator
- Zoe Viccaji (born 1983), Pakistani singer
- Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), American-born English actress
- Zoe Wees (born 2002), German singer
- Zoe Weizenbaum (born 1991), American former actress
- Zoe Williams (born 1973), British journalist
- Zoe Wiseman (born 1970), American photographer and model
Sports
- Zoé Allaire-Bourgie (born 2004), Canadian artistic gymnast
- Zoé Blanc (born 1988), French ice dancer
- Zoi Dimoschaki (born 1985), Greek freestyle swimmer
- Zoe Goss (born 1968), Australian cricket player
- Zoey Clark (born 1994), British sprinter
- Zoi Paraskevopoulou, Greek archer
- Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (born 2001), New Zealand snowboarder
- Zoe Tynan (1998–2016), English footballer
Others
- Zoe Adjonyoh, British writer and cook
- Zoe Cameron, British politician
- Zoe G. Cardon, American ecosystems ecologist
- Zoe Daniel, Australian journalist
- Zoé de Gamond (1806–1854), Belgian educator and feminist
- Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga (1920–2006), Romanian literary historian
- Zoé Genot, Belgian politician (Ecolo)
- Zoe Hauptová (1929–2012), Czech slavicist and chief editor of the Old Church Slavonic Dictionary
- Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, award-winning author from Puerto Rico
- Zoe Konstantopoulou (born 1976), Greek politician
- Zoe Labouré, birth name of French saint Catherine Labouré (1806–1876)
- Zoé Laurier (1842–1921), the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada
- Zoé Oldenbourg (1916–2002), Russian-born French historian and novelist
- Zoe Rosenberg, American animal rights activist and animal sanctuary founder
- Zoe Shabarova (1925–1999), Russian chemist
- Zoë Wicomb (born 1948), South African-Scottish author and academic
- Zoé Valdés (born 1959), Cuban writer
- Zoey Zane (aka Emily Sander; 1989–2007), murder victim
Surname
- John Zoe, Tli Cho statesman
- Rachel Zoe, American fashion designer
Fictional characters
- Zoe, main character played by Jennifer Lopez in The Back-up Plan
- Zoe, from the film Chernobyl Diaries
- Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight, from the online video game League of Legends
- Zoey, one of the four Survivors in Left 4 Dead
- Zoé, a character who must be rescued in the game Little Big Adventure
- Zoë, in the series Monarch of the Glen
- Zoe, character in, and the subject of, the play The Octoroon
- Zoey, a little girl character in the 2019 comedy movie Playing with Fire
- Zoey, Dawn's rival in the Pokémon anime
- Zoey, Rudolph's love interest in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
- Zoe, a Muppet character on Sesame Street
- Zoey, in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, the fourth season of the Total Drama series
- Zoey, the main character from Netflix's StarBeam
- Zoe, from Zombeavers
- Zoey, from the video game Yo-kai Watch (originally named Shizuka Sakai)
- Zoe, a farmer from the animated series Rubble & Crew
- Zoe Anderson, from British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Zoe Aves, from El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera
- Zoe Baker, in the television series This Is Us
- Zoe Barnes, newspaper reporter/blogger, House of Cards
- Zoey Bartlet, youngest daughter of President Barlet on the TV series The West Wing
- Zoë Bean, a rational character in the webcomic Sluggy Freelance
- Zoe Belmont, from Castlevania
- Zoe Benson, a young witch enrolled in the Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, American Horror Story: Coven
- Zoë Boutin Perry, protagonist and narrator of John Scalzi's novel Zoe's Tale
- Zoey Brooks, main character on Zoey 101
- Zoe Busiek, protagonist to the drama Wild Card
- Zoe Carpenter, from British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Zoe Carter, from the TV show Eureka
- Zoë Castillo, the primary protagonist of a computer game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
- Zoey Davis, from the 2019 film Escape Room
- Zoey Franklin, from the Dork Diaries book series
- Zoe Hamilton, from The Perfect Man
- Zoë Hange, or Hange Zoë, from the anime series Attack on Titan
- Zoey Hanson, Ichigo Momomiya's English dub name in Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
- Zoe Hart, in the U.S. TV series Hart of Dixie, played by Rachel Bilson
- Zoe Heriot, companion of the Second Doctor from Doctor Who
- Zoe Landau, ex-wife of lead character Cal Lightman on television series Lie to Me
- Zoe Lawton, the daughter of comic book character Deadshot
- Zoé Lee, a character from the animated TV show Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
- Zoey Lou, an alias adopted by a character in Missing You
- Zoe Louise, the protagonist of the books Zoe Rising and Stonewords by author Pam Conrad
- Zoe Luper, from the soap opera All My Children
- Zoe MacPherson, from the Baby Blues comic strip and TV adaption
- Zoe Murphy, from the musical Dear Evan Hansen
- Zoe Newton, from soap opera EastEnders
- Zoë Nightshade, from the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series
- Zoe Orimoto (Izumi Orimoto in Japanese version), from Digimon Frontier
- Zoe Payne, from the game SSX
- Zoey Pierson, Ted's environmentalist girlfriend in How I Met Your Mother
- Zoey Redbird, the protagonist of the House of Night novels
- Zoe Reynolds, from Spooks (MI-5 in the USA)
- Zoe Rivas, from the teen drama Degrassi
- Zoe Ramos, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
- Zoe the Skating Fairy, a character from the book series Rainbow Magic
- Zoe Slater, main character from soap opera EastEnders
- Zoe Trent, from Littlest Pet Shop
- Zoe Tripp, a folk singer from the 2005 film The Californians
- Zoe Washburne, from the Firefly TV series
- Zoey Woodbine, from the sitcom Cybill
- Zoe Young, from the animated series Fantastic Max
- Zoe Zibbell, in the book series Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
See also
References
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