Zainãb
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zainãb is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 335(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 506
- KWKuwait≈1 in 783
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zainãb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 335 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Zainab in NG Nigeria, US United States, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Zeinab in EG Egypt, GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Zainab (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn, lika med benämningen på en väldoftande blomma. Det är populärt i många länder med muslimsk befolkning, bl.a. eftersom en av profeten Muhammeds döttrar bar namnet.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zainãb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #71 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Zainab | 96 |
| AF Afghanistan | #41 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Zainab | 20 |
| EG Egypt | #202 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Zeinab | 108 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #184 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Zainab | 131 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 3.1K | Zainab | 36 |
| US United States | — | 9,692 | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Zainab | 272 |
| BH Bahrain | #4 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 335 | — | Zainab | 70 |
| KW Kuwait | #53 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 783 | — | Zainab | 71 |
| GE Georgia | #247 | 3,072as ზეინაბ | 1 in 1.3K | 3.1K | Zeinab | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zainãb a male or female name?
- Zainãb is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zainãb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 423 thousand people named Zainãb in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zainab.
- How common is the name Zainãb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,692 people named Zainãb in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Zainãb compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Zainãb is the 71st most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zain%C3%A3bThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zainãb” — the 71st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.