Lea vs Zoe

Zoe is the more popular girl name in Canada, #16 to #58 in 2023. Zoe is the more popular girl name in the United States, #29 to #834 in 2024.

Place by place

Each place ranks its own registered births, so the two names are compared inside one list at a time, in that place's most recent complete year.

LeaZoe#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#58 → #16 ↑42United States#834 → #29 ↑805Alberta#675 → #84 ↑591Ontario#603 → #46 ↑557Quebec#11 → #17 ↓6

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Lea Zoe Ahead
Canada2023#58#16Zoe
United States2024#834#29Zoe
Alberta2024#675#84Zoe
British Columbia2024unranked#47Zoe
Ontario2024#603#46Zoe
Quebec2024#11#17Lea

Lea and Zoe in Canada, 2020–2023

Lea slipped from #42 in 2020 to #58 in 2023 in Canada. Zoe slipped from #12 in 2020 to #16 in 2023 in Canada.

#1#50#100#16 Zoe#58 Lea2020202120222023

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Lea and Zoe in the United States, 2020–2024

Lea slipped from #753 in 2020 to #834 in 2024 in the United States. Zoe climbed from #40 in 2020 to #29 in 2024 in the United States.

#1#500#1000#29 Zoe#834 Lea20202021202220232024

See the full United States girl names list for 2024 →

Other comparisons

How this comparison is built

Both names are ranked by how many babies were registered with that exact spelling, so every position here counts real births rather than votes or searches. Rank is the only measure every source publishes, so it is what the charts plot; birth counts are not released for every place.

A place appears only in the years it published a complete list, which is why a name can be missing from a year it was almost certainly given to some babies. See every head-to-head on the site, or the ranked lists these names come from.