Zoe (name)

Zoe

A mosaic of the Empress Zoë Porphyrogenita in the Hagia Sophia.
Pronunciation	/ˈzoʊ.i/ ZOH-ee; /ˈzoʊ/ ZOH
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"life"
Other names
Variant form(s)	Zoey, Zoí, Zoé, Zoie, Zoë, Zoee, Zoi, Zoh, Zoya, Zoia
Related names	Zooey

Zoe, Zoey, 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. 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.

Zoe is also a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include:

People

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

• 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 Birkett (born 1985), English singer
• Zoe Boyle (born 1989), English actress
• Zoe Caldwell (1933–2020), Australian actress
• Zoe Cassavetes (born 1970), Greek 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 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 (born 1945), 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
• Zoë Poledouris (born 1973), American actress and film composer
• Zoe Saldana (born 1978), American actress
• Zoë 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 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

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
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Russian martyr
• 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
• 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, 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 Pokemon 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
• 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 (U.S. TV series)
• 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 (TV series)
• 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
• Zoe Franklin, from the Dork Diaries book series
• Zoe Hamilton, from The Perfect Man (2005)
• 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
• 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 Slater, main character from soap opera EastEnders
• Zoe Trent, from Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series)
• 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

• Zoe (disambiguation)
• Zoya
• Zoia