Meaning not yet researched.
Zaynab: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,492 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zaynab in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,492 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zaynab: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,492 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 146 (2016).
In 2025, 144 US girls were named Zaynab, making it the 1,492nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 53 places from #1,545 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 139 girls named Zaynab in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,492, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 146, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,621 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaynab in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 8 babies. In all, 2,509 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,051 babies named Zaynab.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,291 US girls were named Zaynab; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,162 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaynab ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #677 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zainab (7,326 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zaynab in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 25 | #677 | #884 |
| Michigan | 10 | #785 | #1,271 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #812 | #1,397 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,081 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,131 | #1,688 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,164 | #1,180 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,241 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,375 | #1,398 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,434 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,488 | #1,589 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,633 | #916 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,630 | #1,800 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 2018 | 136 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #5,009 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,573 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,510 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,672 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,717 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,986 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,243 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,875 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,776 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,132 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,673 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,222 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).