Zoey
Fewer than a hundred Poles carry it, so meeting one stays memorable. From the Greek word for "life", Zoey is a recent arrival here, given to just a handful of girls each year.
Zoey Pronunciation
Zoey is pronounced zo-E-ih (/zɔˈɛɨ/).
What Zoey means
Where Zoey comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zoey begins in Greek, in the word zoe, meaning life. Early Greek-speaking Christians used that same word to render the name of Eve, whose Hebrew root also points to living. The meaning was there from the start.
A third-century martyr in Rome carried the plainer form, Zoe, and the church later kept her feast. Byzantine empresses wore it too, most famously Zoe Porphyrogenita in the eleventh century. The name traveled west slowly and reached English speakers in the nineteenth century.
Zoey is the English respelling, the older Zoe fitted with a final -y. On a Polish class register the teacher might find it beside a Zofia, two names that sound close yet split at the root. Zofia leans on wisdom. Zoey holds to life.
How many people are named Zoey
1 in 271612 women in Poland is named Zoey. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3908 among female names.
Zoey's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1407 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Zoey is most popular
Zoey is most popular in West Pomeranian, 412% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+241%) and Pomeranian (+193%).
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+412%
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Łódź2 girls born+241%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+193%
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Masovian4 girls born+144%
Zoey as a middle name
Zoey is a first name for 83 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1953rd, between Yineth (15) and Zohar (15).
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#1951 Yelyzaveta15
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#1952 Yineth15
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#1953 Zoey15
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#1954 Zohar15
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#1955 Zsófia15