Zarinah

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306

Peak · girls
1978 · 17 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
189
since 1976

Zarinah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zarinah has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201985peak #4,079, 1978girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1993#9,5598
1992#11,7386
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1989#9,6817
1988#9,2447
1987#9,8256
1986#9,5456
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1984#9,1446
1983#6,7059
1982#9,2376
1981#4,74615
1980#5,54412
1979#4,62615
1978#4,07917
1977#4,65214
1976#6,0489
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Zarinah! It came in at #6,048, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zarinah is popular in 1985

No state had 5 or more girls named Zarinah in 1985, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zarinah
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1978 at #4,079 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1982, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 90,109
  • Highest: 1 in 90,109 girls born in 1978 were named Zarinah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 328,026 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 45.5% of all girls named Zarinah (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s55#4,079 (1978)#4,851
1980s86#4,746 (1981)#7,935
1990s20#9,559 (1993)#11,025
2000s11#13,154 (2000)#14,253
2010s12#12,713 (2017)#14,613
2020s5#15,306 (2022)#15,306

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zarinah in 1985

girls
#5,678
12 births · 1 in 143,402 girls

Top girls' names in 1985

  1. #1Jessica48,345
  2. #2Ashley47,010
  3. #3Jennifer42,661
  4. #4Amanda39,055
  5. #5Sarah24,879
  6. #6Stephanie23,243
  7. #7Nicole22,966
  8. #8Heather21,151
  9. #9Elizabeth20,545
  10. #10Megan20,013
  11. #5,678Zarinah12
More about 1985

girls

1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 143,402 of them was named Zarinah, which outranked 54.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zarinah
  1. #5,348Yentl13
  2. #5,348Zelda13
  3. #5,348Zully13
  4. #5,678Zarinah12
  5. #5,678Aaisha12
  6. #5,678Addison12
  7. #5,678Aimie12
  8. #6,031Aaryn11
  9. #6,031Adella11
  10. #6,031Adi11

Tied with 352 names at #5,678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1984
Risers
  1. ↑ 7,360Kayleigh#8,153 → #793
  2. ↑ 1,675Madison#2,299 → #624
  3. ↑ 1,167Cierra#1,633 → #466
  4. ↑ 1,002Ciera#1,703 → #701
  5. ↑ 787Krystina#1,332 → #545
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,164Grisel#784 → #1,948
  2. ↓ 893Ciji#963 → #1,856
  3. ↓ 419Falon#914 → #1,333
  4. ↓ 364Alesia#969 → #1,333
  5. ↓ 362Echo#845 → #1,207

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1985 →