Zain

Where Zain comes from

Zain hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,136 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Zain Asher born
    Nigerian journalist based in the UK
  3. 1995
    Zain Retherford born
    American wrestler
  4. 2019
    Peak, #539
    526 babies named Zain — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zain Retherford · American wrestler, born 1995
  • Zain Asher · Nigerian journalist based in the UK, born 1983
  • Zain Duraie · Jordanian film director
  • Zain Walker · English association football player, born 2002
  • Zain Westbrooke · English association football player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.