Given name & surname · also Urdu
Jinnah
Jinnah is a surname from Urdu, ultimately from Gujarati.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jinnah comes from Urdu, and ultimately from Gujarati.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Jinnah as a surname developed from ઝીણા.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jinnah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 155 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jinnah’s family of names
In English usage, Jinnah as a surname developed from the Gujarati form ઝીણા. In English usage, Jinnah as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Urdu form جِناح. In English usage, Jinnah as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form जिना.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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