Zaynab — #1543 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Zaynab

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,364 babies named Zaynab between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zaynab currently holds the #1543 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 146 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zaynab performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,051 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Zaynab shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 293 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Zaynab in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zaynab 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 2,364 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.