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Zinedine

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Zayn ad-Din

Zinedine has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2006, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Zinedine, 2024

1 in 557,000

Zinedine over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zinedine: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zayn ad-Din

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zinedine means

Zinedine is a alternate transcription of Zayn ad-Din.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zinedine is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Another recorded pronunciation is /zaj.nud.ˈdiːn/ for Zinedine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zayn ad-Din.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 156 boys were recorded with the name Zinedine between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,066 in 2006.

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 Zinedine?

Zinedine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zinedine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zinedine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zinedines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zinedine was born before 2014 — so the typical Zinedine is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
156
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Zinedine 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (18)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,066
2006

Zinedine around the world

Where Zinedine 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
    1998–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1957–2025
    #1,600
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

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.

Zinedine by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,066
2006
Peak year
2006
18 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
156
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Zinedine

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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