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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#705 · 1 in 3,418
- Michigan#734 · 1 in 3,575
- Illinois#876 · 1 in 4,494
- Virginia#951 · 1 in 4,863
- Washington#1,081 · 1 in 5,816
Best ever in a state: #527 in Michigan, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #705 | 23 | 1 in 3,418 |
| Michigan | #734 | 10 | 1 in 3,575 |
| Illinois | #876 | 10 | 1 in 4,494 |
| Virginia | #951 | 7 | 1 in 4,863 |
| Washington | #1,081 | 5 | 1 in 5,816 |
| Georgia | #1,102 | 8 | 1 in 5,689 |
| Ohio | #1,251 | 6 | 1 in 7,799 |
| Texas | #1,299 | 20 | 1 in 8,168 |
| Florida | #1,676 | 7 | 1 in 12,329 |
| California | #2,189 | 9 | 1 in 18,406 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,656 of them was named Zaynab, which outranked 91.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,529Londynn140
- #1,529Vivianne140
- #1,529Zylah140
- #1,536Zaynab139
- #1,536Alyvia139
- #1,536Janie139
- #1,536Kadence139
- #1,546Brynnlee138
- #1,546Camellia138
- #1,546Estefany138
Tied with 9 names at #1,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.