Zoë
From the Greek zoe, meaning "life". Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, though a few more girls have taken it in the last couple of years.
Zoë Pronunciation
Zoë is pronounced ZOË (/zɔë/).
What Zoë means
Where Zoë comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zoë began as the Greek word ζωή, meaning life itself. The two dots over the e form a diaeresis. They ask you to sound the vowel on its own, zo-ee, so the name keeps its two beats.
Greek-speaking Jews reached for this word when they translated the Hebrew Bible. In Genesis they rendered Eve, whose Hebrew name Chavah also means life, as Zoë. Early Christians took it up next, and several martyrs carried it. One Byzantine empress, Zoë Porphyrogenita, ruled in Constantinople in the eleventh century.
The English-speaking world adopted Zoë much later, in the nineteenth century. The meaning stayed put. It still means life.
On a Polish class register the same name shows up as Zoja, the variant that trades the diaeresis for a j. Different spelling, one Greek root, the same life.
How many people are named Zoë
1 in 262138 women in Poland is named Zoë. 86 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3816 among female names.
Zoë's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1161 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Where Zoë is most popular
Zoë is most popular in Pomeranian, 226% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+123%) and Silesian (+111%).
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Pomeranian2 girls born+226%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+123%
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Silesian2 girls born+111%
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Masovian3 girls born+103%
Zoë as a middle name
Zoë is a first name for 86 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2124th, between Zoé (13) and Özlem (13).
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#2122 Zonia13
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#2123 Zoé13
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#2124 Zoë13
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#2125 Özlem13
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#2126 Adeline12