Zoe (name)
Zoe, Zoey, Zoie, Zoi, Zoé, Zoia, Zoya or Zoë is a feminine first name of Greek origin, meaning "life". It is a popular name for girls in many countries, ranking among the top 100 names for girls born in the United States since 2000. 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 Argentina, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. In 2022, Zoe was the 20th most popular name given to girls in Canada, while Zoey was 42nd.
Zoe is also a surname.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
Historical
- Zoe Porphyrogenita, Byzantine empress
- Exuperius and Zoe, saints, martyrs
- Zoe of Rome, martyred saint
- Zoe Karbonopsina, Byzantine empress
- Zoe Palaiologina, wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia
- Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla, intimate friend and confidante of Louis XVIII
Contemporary
Arts and entertainment
- Gorilla Zoe, American rapper
- Zoë , Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
- Zoë , English pop star
- Zoe Akins, American playwright, poet and author
- Zoë Avril, French singer
- Zoë Baird, American lawyer, Attorney General nominee in 1993
- Zoë Ball, English television and radio personality
- Zoë Bell, New Zealand stuntwoman and actress
- Zoe Beloff, New York-based artist
- Zoe Bertram, Australian actress
- Zoe Birkett, English singer
- Zoe Boyle, English actress
- Zoe Brough, English actress
- Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress
- Zoe Cassavetes, American director, screenwriter and actress
- Zoë Chao, American actress and screenwriter
- Zoe Colletti, American actress
- Zooey Deschanel, American actress and musician
- Zoey Deutch, American actress and producer
- Zoé Félix, French actress
- Zoe Gotusso, Argentine musician
- Zoë Heller, English journalist and novelist
- Zoë Howe, English music writer
- Zoe Kazan, American actress
- Zoë Keating, Canadian-American cellist and composer
- Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer and model
- Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
- Zoë Lister, English actress
- Zöe Lucker, English actress
- Zoë Lund, American entertainer
- Zoe Lyons, British comedian
- Zoe McLellan, American actress
- Zoë Më, Swiss singer-songwriter
- Zoë Nathenson, British actress
- Zoe Naylor, Australian actress
- Zoie Palmer, Canadian actress
- Zoë Pastelle, Swiss actress
- Zoe Kincaid Penlington, Canadian-American expert on kabuki
- Zoë Poledouris, American actress and film composer
- Zoe Saldaña, American actress
- Zoe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
- Zoë Straub, Austrian singer, songwriter, and actress
- Zoe Strauss, American photographer
- Zoe Sugg, English beauty blogger and vlogger
- Zoie Tam, Hong Kong actress, singer and television presenter
- Zoë Tapper, English actress
- Zoe Tay, Singaporean actress
- Zoé Valdés, Cuban writer
- Zoe Ventoura, Australian actress
- Zoe Verbiceanu, Romanian playwright and translator
- Zoe Viccaji, Pakistani singer
- Zoë Wanamaker, American-born English actress
- Zoe Wees, German singer
- Zoe Weizenbaum, American former actress
- Zoe Williams , British journalist
- Zoe Wiseman, American photographer and model
Sports
- Zoé Allaire-Bourgie, Canadian artistic gymnast
- Zoe Boyd, Canadian ice hockey player
- Zoe Díaz, Argentine field hockey player
- Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek freestyle swimmer
- Zoe Goss, Australian cricket player
- Zoey Clark, British sprinter
- Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, New Zealand snowboarder
- Zoe Tynan, English footballer
- Zoe Voris, American wheelchair basketball player
Others
- Zoe Adjonyoh, British writer and cook
- Zoe Cameron, British politician
- Zoe G. Cardon, American ecosystems ecologist
- Zoe Daniel, Australian journalist
- Zoé de Gamond, Belgian educator and feminist
- Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, Romanian literary historian
- Zöe Franklin, British politician
- , Belgian politician
- Zoe Hauptová, Czech slavicist and chief editor of the Old Church Slavonic Dictionary
- Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, Puerto Rican writer, professor at the University of Puerto Rico
- Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek politician
- Zoe Labouré, birth name of French saint Catherine Labouré
- Zoé Laurier, the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada
- Zoé Oldenbourg, Russian-born French historian and novelist
- Zoe Rosenberg, American animal rights activist and animal sanctuary founder
- Zoe Royer, a Canadian politician
- Zoe Sarnacki, American murder victim
- Zoe Shabarova, Russian chemist
- Zoé Valdés, Cuban writer
- Zoë Wicomb, South African-Scottish author and academic
- Zoey Williams, Canadian commercial pilot
- Zoey Zane, American student, 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
- Zoë, in the series Monarch of the Glen
- Zoe, character in, and the subject of, the play The Octoroon
- Zoe, from the Papa Louie video games
- Zoey, a little girl character in the 2019 comedy movie Playing with Fire
- Zoey, the main character from Netflix's StarBeam
- Zoe, from Zombeavers
- Zoey, from the video game Yo-kai Watch
- Zoe, a farmer from the animated series Rubble & Crew
- Zoe, Muppet character on Sesame Street
- Zoey, character from Total Drama
- Zoey, from the animated film KPop Demon Hunters
- Zoe Anderson, from British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Zoe Baker, in the television series This Is Us
- Zoe Barnes, newspaper reporter/blogger, House of Cards
- Zoey Bartlet, youngest daughter of President Bartlet on the TV series The West Wing
- Zoë Bean, a rational character in the webcomic Sluggy Freelance
- 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
- List of [Dinosaur King characters|Zoe Drake], from the Dinosaur King franchise
- 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
- 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
- Zoey Howzer, from the animated series The Proud Family
- Zoey Johnson, from Black-ish and the protagonist in Grown-ish
- 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, from Digimon Frontier
- Zoe Payne, from the game SSX
- Zoe Phillips, protagonist and narrator of the Netflix series Free Rein
- Zoey Pierson, Ted's environmentalist girlfriend in How I Met Your Mother, played by Jennifer Morrison
- Zoey Redbird, the protagonist of the House of Night novels
- Zoe Reynolds, from Spooks
- Zoe Ramos, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
- Zoe Slater, main character from soap opera EastEnders
- Zoey Stevens, main protagonist in the 2014 Disney Channel film Zapped
- Zoey R. Tanyag, a character in the Philippine drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap
- Zoe Tripp, a folk singer from the 2005 film The Californians
- Zoe Valentine, the title character from the Brat web series Zoe Valentine
- Zoe Washburne, from the Firefly TV series
- Zoey Woodbine, from the sitcom Cybill
- Zoe Zibbell, in the book series Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
- Zoe Zimmer, a supporting character in Ms. Marvel's comic series in Marvel Comics.
- Zoey, a character from the Nickelodeon movie Santa Hunters
- Zoe, a character from the visual novel franchise Monster Prom