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Girl's name · #1492 in the US (2025) · Trending
Zaynab is climbing: on the charts since 1982, it reached #1492 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 140 girls given the name last year. Roughly 2,500 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#302 in England & Wales (2025) · #336 in France (2025) · #359 in Belgium (2025) · #688 in Netherlands (2025) · #779 in Scotland (2025) · #782 in Sweden (2025) · #1,166 in Switzerland (2025) · #576 in Canada (2024).
Among 29 notable people named Zaynab:
Artists & writers appear 2.07× more often than among typical names — e.g. Zaynab Alkali, Nigerian novelist.
Together with its spelling variant Zainab (#810), Zaynab would rank around #608 with about 480 births last year — the newborns split about 70/30 between Zainab and Zaynab.
Similar names: Zainab · Hafsa · Shaindy · Marwa · Safiya · Safa
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