Entry № 12001 · Greek origin

Zoi Zoi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Life"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "life".

Zoi is from the Greek Zōḗ.

Life — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ζωή

Transliteration: Zōḗ
Pronunciation: / ˈzoʊ.i /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Zoi stands.

Zoi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Zois before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Empress Zoē Porphyrogenita

Byzantine Empress 978-1050 + daughter of Constantine VIII + Hagia Sophia mosaic + ruled with three husbands

Byzantine

Names connected to Zoi.

Numerology

The number behind Zoi.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zoi reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.