Zamzam
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAM-zam
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zamzam is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Zamzam mean?
Arabic: from the well of Zamzam in Mecca
Named after the well of Zamzam in Mecca, which Islamic tradition says sprang up for Hagar and the infant Ishmael.
Is Zamzam a girl's or a boy's name?
Zamzam is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zamzam in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Zamzam, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Zamzam in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Zamzam in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
How popular is Zamzam in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zamzam, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Zamzam than any year since 2003.
Half of all the girls named Zamzam in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zamzam in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
Names like Zamzam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Ayah, Hiba, Rahma, Safaa, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Ilham
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, “Zamzam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zamzam, updated 20 October 2026.