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Zeinab

#5,095 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Zaynab

Zeinab has been given to 1,292 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,095 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Zeinab, 2025

1 in 128,000

Zeinab over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeinab: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zaynab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeinab means

Zeinab is a form of Zaynab.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zeinab → Zaynab. The family’s meaning is “fragrant flower”, recorded in English with the source elements zaynab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zaynab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,292 girls were recorded with the name Zeinab between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,604 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,159 in 2020 to #5,095 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,722 in 2015 to #5,095 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zeinab?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,095
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeinab sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeinab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeinabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeinab was born before 2004 — so the typical Zeinab is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,292
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (417).

Is Zeinab rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+48
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−373
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.3%
Peak was 1999 (55)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,604
1999

Spellings of Zeinab

Zeinab is not the most common spelling — Reina is, with 33.1% against Zeinab's 3.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zeinab is used

Across 1910–2025, Zeinab was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 49,214 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zeinab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zeinab around the world

Where Zeinab ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1978–2025
    #971
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2012
    #510
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zeinab by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,095
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 64
Best rank ever
#2,604
1999
Peak year
1999
55 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,292
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Zeinab

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zeinab

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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