Zainah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Zainah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Zainah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zaina; feminine form of Zain
“beautiful”
A feminine form of Zain, from Arabic zayn, beauty or grace.
Meaning borrowed from Zaina.
Is Zainah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zainah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zainah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Zainah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2008, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zainah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 200 girls in the UK were given Zainah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #264, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Zainah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 14 | #1,943 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,940 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 11 | #1,949 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
How popular is Zainah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Zainah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Zainah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 411 girls in the US were given Zainah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #696, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Zainah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
Names like Zainah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Nusaybah Aaliyah Ayah Hafsa Sumayyah Hiba Ruqayyah Farah Rahma Safaa Aaminah
Other spellings of Zainah
Names related to Zainah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Zainah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zainah, updated 20 October 2026.