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Zeynab

#6,830 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Zeinab

Zeynab has been given to 216 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #6,830 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Zeynab, 2025

1 in 195,000

Zeynab over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeynab: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zeinab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeynab means

Zeynab is a alternate transcription of Zeinab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zeinab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 216 girls were recorded with the name Zeynab between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,656 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,916 in 2020 to #6,830 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,433 in 2015 to #6,830 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.

How common is Zeynab?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,830
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeynab 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeynab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeynabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeynab was born before 2017 — so the typical Zeynab is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
216
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Choose a decade

2010s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Zeynab 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
+412
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,603
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.5%
Peak was 2016 (19)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,656
2016

Spellings of Zeynab

Zeynab is not the most common spelling — Reyna is, with 41.4% against Zeynab's 0.48%.

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 Zeynab is used

Across 1910–2025, Zeynab was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 999,207 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 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. Zeynab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zeynab around the world

Where Zeynab 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #555
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Zeynab by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,830
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 86
Best rank ever
#6,656
2016
Peak year
2016
19 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Zeynab

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

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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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