Zainab

What Zainab means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Zainab yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #128 vs #807 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Zainab?

US: Rising: up from #941 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #142 in 2015, #128 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 338 girls got the name (#807 that year). First in the US records in 1957.

How common

• About 1 in 4,755 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 658 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,052 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MI (0.92 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.7 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.64 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Zainab is #807 in the US and #128 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Zainab were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zaynab144 US · 149 E&W
• Zeinab26 US · 9 E&W
• Zeynab17 US · 5 E&W
• Zayneb7 US · 6 E&W
• Zaineb5 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Zainab

Girls

• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*

For a brother

• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Crew#256“weir”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Zainab’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.