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Seynabou

Girl · SAY-na-boo · Arabic

Seynabou is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “fragrant flowering plant”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Seynabou mean?

Arabic: West African form of Zaynab

“fragrant flowering plant”

West African form of Zaynab, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter.

Say it
SAY-na-boo

Is Seynabou a girl's or a boy's name?

Seynabou is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Seynabou in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Seynabou, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the girls named Seynabou in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 15 in 20032025
Seynabou in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20239#10,307
20226#13,586
20218#11,141
20206#13,448
20197#12,442
201812#8,612
20176#14,120
20165#16,210
20155#16,413
20148#11,925
20137#13,145
20129#11,251
20115#16,756
20109#11,240
200911#9,971
20088#12,574
20079#11,626
20066#15,147
20058#11,828
200412#8,711
200315#7,202
20020–
20016#13,514
20006#13,147
19996#12,681

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