Zaynab
#1,484 for girls in 2025, 144 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 144 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,509since 1982
Zaynab over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaynab has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,484 | 144 |
| 2024 | #1,536 | 139 |
| 2023 | #1,506 | 143 |
| 2022 | #1,828 | 111 |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 |
| 2020 | #1,781 | 111 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 |
| 2018 | #1,585 | 136 |
| 2017 | #1,744 | 121 |
| 2016 | #1,541 | 146 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 |
| 2014 | #1,997 | 99 |
| 2013 | #1,939 | 102 |
| 2012 | #2,232 | 84 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaynab! It came in at #7,469, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zaynab is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#717 · 1 in 3,571
- Michigan#765 · 1 in 4,207
- Minnesota#768 · 1 in 4,090
- Pennsylvania#823 · 1 in 4,714
- New York#873 · 1 in 4,991
Best ever in a state: #527 in Michigan, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #717 | 9 | 1 in 3,571 |
| Michigan | #765 | 10 | 1 in 4,207 |
| Minnesota | #768 | 6 | 1 in 4,090 |
| Pennsylvania | #823 | 11 | 1 in 4,714 |
| New York | #873 | 18 | 1 in 4,991 |
| Illinois | #915 | 11 | 1 in 5,239 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,315 |
| North Carolina | #1,376 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Texas | #1,697 | 13 | 1 in 12,869 |
| Florida | #2,072 | 5 | 1 in 17,342 |
| California | #2,135 | 10 | 1 in 20,372 |
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See more about Zaynab
- 52 spots since 2024 (#1,536 → #1,484)
- 297 spots since 2020 (#1,781 → #1,484)
- 125 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #1,484)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2025 at #1,484 (144 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,162 girls born in 2025 were named Zaynab (0.01%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Zaynab (1,051) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 37 | #6,612 (1986) | #8,635 |
| 1990s | 181 | #3,648 (1998) | #5,802 |
| 2000s | 466 | #2,808 (2004) | #3,390 |
| 2010s | 1,051 | #1,541 (2016) | #2,032 |
| 2020s | 774 | #1,484 (2025) | #1,631 |
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.
Zaynab in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,137 of them was named Zaynab, which outranked 91.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).