Given name
Zinedine
“beauty of the faith”
Zinedine is a masculine given name from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zinedine goes back to a word meaning “beauty of the faith.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zinedine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 156
- 156 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2006.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zinedine’s family of names
In English usage, Zinedine has a related form in Zain ad-Din. In English usage, Zinedine has a related form in Zain Addin. In English usage, Zinedine has a related form in Zainaddin.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Zaynvariant
- Zineddinelikely variant
- Zayn ad-Dinvariant · English
- Zainuddinvariant · English
- Zainaddinvariant · English
- Zaynaddinvariant · English
- Zain Addinvariant · English
- Zayn Addinvariant · English
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Zinedine
- Zinedine ZidaneFrench association football player and coachborn 1972
- Zinédine MachachAlgerian, Moroccan and French footballerborn 1996
- Zinedine FerhatAlgerian footballerborn 1993
- Zinedine SoualemFrench actorborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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