Zoë

• Zoe, Zoey, Zooey, Zöe

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”). It was the name of a third century martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzoʊ.i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzəʊ.i/

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• Rhymes: -əʊi, -oʊi

Zoë

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1907, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa, BiblioBazaar,LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, page 67:

     "Zoë!" The high-born girl repeated her own name in genuine astonishment. / "Yes," replied the negress. "Rustan is very affectionate. He says that I am his Zoë, his "life", because he would surely die of starvation without me."

   • 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     On August 16, 2014, a 24-year-old male programmer posted a more than 9,000-word tirade about the dissolution of his relationship with video game developer Zoë Quinn.

• Used in English since the nineteenth century and currently quite popular.

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