Zainab — #852 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Zainab

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,985 babies named Zainab between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zainab currently holds the #852 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 316 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zainab performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,720 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Zainab shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,149 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Zainab in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zainab in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,985 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.