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Zoe, Zoë
Gender: Female
Origin: Greek, ζωή
Meaning: life

Zoë (and other such names) is a female name which came from ancient Greece and means "life" in Greek.

Some uses of the name are:

Real people

  • Zoe Ball, British television presenter
  • Zooey Deschanel, American actress/musician
  • Zoe Karbonopsina (died c. 920), Byzantine empress
  • Zoe (empress), Byzantine empress (c. 978–1050)
  • Zoe Palaiologina, (c. 1455–April 7, 1503), wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia
  • Zoë (singer), English pop star who had a 1991 hit with "Sunshine On A Rainy Day"
  • Zoey (singer), a J-Pop singer

Fictional characters

  • Zoë (Sluggy Freelance), a character from the Sluggy Freelance comic strip
  • Zoë Castillo, a character from the computer game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
  • Zoé (Little Big Adventure), a character from Little Big Adventure video games
  • Zoë, a character in the series Monarch of the Glen
  • Zoë (All My Children), a character on the All My Children soap opera
  • Zoe Reynolds a character played by Keeley Hawes in the BBC television series Spooks, (MI-5 in the United States)
  • Zoe Orimoto, a character from Digimon Frontier
  • Zoe Washburne, from the television series Firefly
  • Zoe Heriot, a character in the television series Doctor Who
  • Zoë (Sesame Street), a Muppet
  • Zoe MacPherson, a character from the Baby Blues comic strip
  • Zoey (Pokémon)
  • Zoey Brooks, main character on Zoey 101
  • Zoey Hanson, Ichigo Momomiya's English dub name in Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
  • Zooey Glass, One of the principal characters in Franny and Zooey the dual stories published by J.D. Salinger in 1955
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