Zaynab
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaynab 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. Recorded meaning: name of a beautiful tree exuding fragrance; name of two wives and one daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and one daughter of Khalifa Ali.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 335as Zainab
- NGNigeria≈1 in 506as 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 Zaynab 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 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 named Zainab, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, 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, Zeinab in EG Egypt, GE Georgia and Зайнаб in UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
name of a beautiful tree exuding fragrance; name of two wives and one daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and one daughter of Khalifa Ali
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaynab 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 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #599 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Зайнаб | 16 |
| 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; the wgnd-eg-names register; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); the uz-ismlarim register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zaynab is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, scented flower. Names of two wives and one daughter of Muhammad (s) and one daughter of Khalifa Ali
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Daughter of Prophet Muhammad
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Daughter of al-Husayn.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, ) Zeynab ['zemab], Zinab, ['zi:nab], Zineb ['zi:neb]: weibl. Vom. ara bischer Herkunft (zu arab. zaynab, Bezeich nung einer wohlriechenden Wüstenpflanze).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zaynab bint Maz'unb. 501SAWife of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Zaynab bint Khuzaymab. 595SAMuhammad's fifth wife (c. 596–625)
- Zainab bint Muhammadb. 599SAEldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Zaynab al-Mariyyab. 1100ESpoet from Al-Andalous
- Zaynab Fawwazb. 1844LBwomen's rights activist and writer
- Zaynab Alkalib. 1950NGNigerian novelist. She is also a poet and short story writer, recognized as the first female novelist in Northern Nigeria.
- Zeynab Habibb. 1975BJnot in their usual nameBeninese singer of world music
- Zaynab Dossob. 1999ITItalian athletics competitor
- Zaynab Dayibekovab. 2002UZUzbekistani fencer
- Umm RumanSAnot in their usual namecompanion of Muhammad and wife of Abu Bakr
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,399 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 144 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #8,399 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zaynab mean, and where does it come from?
- name of a beautiful tree exuding fragrance; name of two wives and one daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and one daughter of Khalifa Ali Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Zaynab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 423 thousand people named Zainab in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Zaynab a male or female name?
- Zaynab 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.
- What are other forms of the name Zaynab?
- In the etymology graph, Zeynep, Zainab and Seynabou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Zaynab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,692 people named Zainab in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaynab compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Zaynab 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/zaynabThe 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, “Zaynab” — the 71st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.