Zarinah
Zarinah was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 189 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zarinah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zarinah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,712, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1978, the peak
Zarinah peaked in 1978, when 17 girls were given it, #4,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,712 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,091 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,175 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,947 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #15,005 | 3.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,417 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,575 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,304 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,832 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,373 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #11,313 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,897 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,027 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,409 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,309 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,505 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,961 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,910 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,840 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,241 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,940 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,607 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zarinah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zarinah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zarinah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zarinah, and how old are they?
An estimated 183 Americans named Zarinah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Zarinah (194 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Zarinah?
Zarinah is a less common spelling of Zarina: SSA has recorded 189 Zarinah and 1,612 Zarina since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,132 babies since 1880, Zarinah is the third most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Zarinah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zarinah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zarinah and names like it
- Compare Zarinah and ZarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sZarinah peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Zarinah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zarinah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.