girls:
23 births since 2017
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2022
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
36 births since 2017
#7703 (0th percentile)
The name Zoah is the #7,703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36 recorded births since 2017. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2017. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2022.
Zoah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2017 (2017 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Zoah is available in 6 out of the 7 years between 2017 and 2023 (4 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zoah has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (63.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Zoah were girls.
For girls, Zoah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Zoah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #908) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Currently, Zoah is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #908 (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zoah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zoah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zoah is pronounced as ZOH-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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