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Zineb

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Zaynab

Zineb has been given to 103 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Zineb, 2018

1 in 440,000

Zineb over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zineb: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zaynab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zineb means

Zineb is a alternate transcription of Zaynab.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zineb is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈzaj.nab/ and /zi.nɛb/ for Zineb.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zineb → 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, 103 girls were recorded with the name Zineb between 1996 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2001; its best national rank was #10,091 in 2001.

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 Zineb?

Zineb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 440,000
8 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
304,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zineb 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 2018 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 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zineb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zinebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zineb was born before 2009 — so the typical Zineb is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
103
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Zineb 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (10)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,091
2001

Spellings of Zineb

Zineb is not the most common spelling — Inez is, with 75.0% against Zineb's 0.11%.

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.

Zineb around the world

Where Zineb 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
    1998–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1939–2025
    #1,072
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zineb by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,091
2001
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
103
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zineb

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

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Sibling names for Zineb

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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