Zaina
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #723 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,309 for girls
Zaina is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 723rd for girls in the UK (56 babies) and 1,309th for girls in the US (170 babies).
What does Zaina mean?
Arabic: feminine form of Zain
“beautiful”
A feminine form of Zain, from Arabic zayn, beauty or grace.
Is Zaina a girl's or a boy's name?
Zaina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 56 girls in the UK and 170 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zaina in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 723rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 56 about 1 in 5,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 56 girls in the UK were named Zaina, making it the 723rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 945th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 108 girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Zaina than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Zaina in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 200 girls in the UK were given Zaina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #264, up from #723 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 719th in England and Wales and 539th in Scotland.
Zaina in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #723 |
| 2024 | 48 | #826 |
| 2023 | 40 | #949 |
| 2022 | 34 | #1,066 |
| 2021 | 34 | #1,078 |
| 2020 | 40 | #945 |
| 2019 | 47 | #849 |
| 2018 | 44 | #905 |
| 2017 | 50 | #839 |
| 2016 | 33 | #1,133 |
| 2015 | 52 | #799 |
| 2014 | 57 | #747 |
| 2013 | 49 | #829 |
| 2012 | 78 | #597 |
| 2011 | 96 | #489 |
| 2010 | 108 | #447 |
| 2009 | 83 | #525 |
| 2008 | 96 | #474 |
| 2007 | 82 | #511 |
| 2006 | 59 | #623 |
| 2005 | 57 | #624 |
| 2004 | 45 | #698 |
| 2003 | 42 | #720 |
| 2002 | 38 | #740 |
| 2001 | 42 | #670 |
| 2000 | 29 | #854 |
| 1999 | 15 | #1,347 |
| 1998 | 11 | #1,694 |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Zaina in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,309th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 170 about 1 in 9,500 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 170 girls in the US were named Zaina, making it the 1,309th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,587th. It first appears in the records in 1982.
2025 had the most girls named Zaina of any year since it first appeared, in 1982.
Half of all the girls named Zaina in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 411 girls in the US were given Zaina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #696, up from #1,309 for this spelling alone.
Zaina in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,309 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,472 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,557 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,560 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,630 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,587 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,668 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,425 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,534 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,505 |
| 2015 | 110 | #1,861 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,728 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,866 |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,016 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,780 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,913 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,914 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,762 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,457 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,459 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,029 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,648 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,436 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,142 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,959 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,212 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,635 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,911 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,505 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,356 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,017 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,227 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
Names like Zaina
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Huda, Zoha, Aaliyah, Safaa, Ayah, Abeeha, Amira, Safiya
Other spellings of Zaina
Names related to Zaina
Zaniyah, Ziyana, Zana, Zina, Ziana, Zaniya, Zaniah, Zyana, Zianna
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zaina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zaina, updated 20 October 2026.