Zeinab
Zeinab was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,095 among girls’ names; 1,292 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Zeinab and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zeinab by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zeinab?
#5,095 among girls’ names, 2025
Zeinab fell from #4,722 in 2015 to #5,095 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 16.2 per million.
55 babies in 1999, the peak
Zeinab peaked in 1999, when 55 girls were given it, #2,604 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,095 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,143 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,742 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,903 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,945 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,159 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,979 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,608 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,327 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,843 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,722 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,452 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,641 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,886 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,678 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,604 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,868 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,175 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,980 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,261 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,723 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,382 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,127 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,098 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,917 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,065 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,604 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,826 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,973 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,050 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,279 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,871 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,767 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,412 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,714 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,687 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,663 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,592 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,780 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,742 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,670 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,537 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,209 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,465 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zeinab a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zeinab has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zeinab: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zeinab, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,292 Americans ever recorded as Zeinab. The median Zeinab alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,717 people named Zeinab (2,704 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 303 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zeinab born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,524 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,059 | 13.2× |
Where Zeinab is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zeinab is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1982 it was given 13.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zeinab with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,764 babies since 1880, Zeinab is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 43 babies (60%), again the most given.
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 Zeinab
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 Zeinab and names like it
- Compare Zeinab and ZeynabBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZeinab peaked in 1999.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zeinab since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Zeinab.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zeinab alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.