Zoya comes from the Greek zoe, meaning life, and reached Russian and South Asian use as a bright, vital name.
Short and striking, it is loved across Eastern Europe and the Muslim world alike, feeling both classic and current.
Full of spirit, Zoya is life itself.
Zoya 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zoya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.