Zowie
Zoe Bridey Fleury better known by her stage name Zowie, is a singer-songwriter and drummer from New Zealand. She formerly performed as Bionic Pixie until 2010, and was also part of the rock duo The Bengal Lights alongside Maeve Munro.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Zowie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Zoe Bridey Fleury better known by her stage name Zowie, is a singer-songwriter and drummer from New Zealand. She formerly performed as Bionic Pixie until 2010, and was also part of the rock duo The Bengal Lights alongside Maeve Munro.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Zowie
American parents first put Zowie on the record books as a baby girl name in 1992, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2003, when 65 Zowies were born — ranking #2,497 that year. The 2000s were its strongest decade, accounting for roughly 55% of all recorded Zowies. Its most recent appearance in the national data came in 2024 (5 births); the name has since faded from the published rankings. In total, more than 806 Zowies have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Zowie
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About the name Zowie
Zowie is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 806 births in the dataset. Zowie's peak popularity came in 2003 when it ranked #2,497. Use the chart and map above to compare Zowie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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