Zoe (name)

Zoë (and other such names) is a feminine name which came from ancient Greece and means "life" in Greek.^[1] The pronunciation of the name is [ zoh-ee, zoh ].^[2] This name was ranked #42 on the US Popular Names in 2021.^[3]

Zoe, Zoë
Gender:	Gender-neutral
Origin:	Greek, ζωή
Meaning:	life

Some uses of the name are:

Real people

• Zoe Ball, British television presenter
• Zooey Deschanel, American actress/musician
• Zoe Karbonopsina (died c. 920), Byzantine empress
• Zoe (empress), Byzantine empress (c. 978–1050)
• Zoe Palaiologina, (c. 1455–April 7, 1503), wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia
• Zoë (singer), English pop star who had a 1991 hit with "Sunshine On A Rainy Day"
• Zoey (singer), a J-Pop singer
• Zoe Cramond, New Zealand actress
• Zoe Saldaña, American actress

Fictional characters

• Zoë (Sluggy Freelance), a character from the Sluggy Freelance comic strip
• Zoë Castillo, a character from the computer game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
• Zoé (Little Big Adventure), a character from Little Big Adventure video games
• Zoë, a character in the series Monarch of the Glen
• Zoë (All My Children), a character on the All My Children soap opera
• Zoe Reynolds a character played by Keeley Hawes in the BBC television series Spooks, (MI-5 in the United States)
• Zoe Orimoto, a character from Digimon Frontier
• Zoe Washburne, from the television series Firefly
• Zoe Trent, a character from Littlest Pet Shop
• Zoe, a character from Bluey
• Zoe Heriot, a character in the television series Doctor Who
• Zoë (Sesame Street), a Muppet
• Zoe MacPherson, a character from the Baby Blues comic strip
• Zoey (Pokémon)
• Zoey Brooks, main character on Zoey 101
• Zoey Hanson, Ichigo Momomiya's English dub name in Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
• Zooey Glass, One of the principal characters in Franny and Zooey the dual stories published by J.D. Salinger in 1955