Sainab
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sainab is a 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 335as Zainab(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 506as Zainab
- KWKuwait≈1 in 783as Zainab
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 Sainab 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)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 335 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 named Zainab, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est., as Zainab
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sainab 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 | — | 9,692as Zainab | 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sainab a male or female name?
- Sainab 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 Sainab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 423 thousand people named Zainab in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sainab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,692 people named Zainab in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Sainab compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Sainab 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/sainabThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sainab” — the 71st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.