Zayneb
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAY-neb
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zayneb 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 Zayneb mean?
Arabic: spelling of Zaynab (Turkish Zeynep)
Zaynab was the name of the Prophet Muhammad's eldest daughter and of his granddaughter Zaynab bint Ali.
Is Zayneb a girl's or a boy's name?
Zayneb 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 Zayneb in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Zayneb, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 7 girls.
2025 had more girls named Zayneb than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Zayneb in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 580 girls in the UK were given Zayneb or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #102, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Zayneb in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Zayneb in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Zayneb, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Zayneb in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 532 girls in the US were given Zayneb or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #562, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Zayneb in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
Names like Zayneb
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Ayah Aaliyah Hiba Rahma Safaa Nusaybah Sumayyah Ruqayyah Abeeha Zaha
Other spellings of Zayneb
Names related to Zayneb
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, “Zayneb: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zayneb, updated 20 October 2026.