Given name & surname
Zeinab
“one who is good and wellbehaved”
Zeinab is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is good and wellbehaved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is good and wellbehaved.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zeinab through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,292
- 0 boys · 1,292 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 26
- #5,096 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 26 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,096 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was virtually unchanged in 2021–2025 compared with 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1999. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (9). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,717 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zeinab’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zeinab
- Zeinab BadawiSudanese-British broadcaster (born 1959)
- Zeynab KhanlarovaAzerbaijani singerborn 1936
- Zeinab MamedyarovaAzerbaijani chess playerborn 1983
- Zeynab Begumfourth daughter of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524-1576)1550–1640
- Zeinab CamaraGuinea politician, football club presidentborn 1981
- Zainab Al AskariBahraini actressborn 1974
- Zeinab Soleimanidaughter of Qassem Soleimaniborn 1991
- Zeinab Kamel Alipolitician
- Zeinab Mohammed SalihSudanese freelance journalist
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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