Zaïnab

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zaïnab is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 4.9K
  • DKDenmark1 in 8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,692 people, 2020

Sources
145 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zainab in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

recorded in Swedish

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.

Sources 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 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaïnab 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.

Where Zaïnab is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,6921 in 34K9.7KZainab69
SE Sweden2,0801 in 4.9K2.1K—7
ES Spain1,8701 in 27K1.9KZainab28
DK Denmark7301 in 8K730——
NO Norway5831 in 9.4K2K—2
FI Finland2501 in 22K547—1
IS Iceland141 in 25K14——

9,692 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zaïnab is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Nigeria, India, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Zainab, Žãîňåb

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaĭnab, Zainab

  • Hindi given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Zainab, Jainab, Jaynab, Joynob, জয়নব

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zaïnab under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Zaïnab a male or female name?
Zaïnab 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 Zaïnab have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.7 thousand people named Zaïnab, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zainab.
Where is Zaïnab most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaïnab is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zaïnab?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,692 people named Zaïnab in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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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, “Zaïnab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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