Zeenat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZEE-nat
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,368 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Zeenat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “adornment, beauty”. In 2025 it ranked 1,368th for girls in the UK (24 babies) and 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Zeenat mean?
Arabic: Urdu and Persian form of Arabic zina
“adornment, beauty”
Zinat-un-Nissa, a daughter of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, built the Zinat-ul-Masajid mosque in Delhi.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Zeenat a girl's or a boy's name?
Zeenat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the UK and 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zeenat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,368th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24 about 1 in 12,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 68% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the UK were named Zeenat, making it the 1,368th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 1998, with 28 girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Zeenat than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Zeenat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Zeenat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #1,368 for this spelling alone.
- Zeenat 24
- Zinat 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,315th in England and Wales.
Zeenat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #1,368 |
| 2024 | 21 | #1,538 |
| 2023 | 17 | #1,798 |
| 2022 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,981 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,941 |
| 2015 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 19 | #1,662 |
| 2012 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 2011 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 21 | #1,449 |
| 2008 | 19 | #1,548 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | 27 | #1,087 |
| 2005 | 20 | #1,280 |
| 2004 | 13 | #1,722 |
| 2003 | 15 | #1,492 |
| 2002 | 12 | #1,649 |
| 2001 | 25 | #955 |
| 2000 | 18 | #1,182 |
| 1999 | 17 | #1,243 |
| 1998 | 28 | #866 |
| 1997 | 9 | #1,927 |
| 1996 | 17 | #1,179 |
How popular is Zeenat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Zeenat, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.
Half of all the girls named Zeenat in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zeenat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
Names like Zeenat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Hafsa, Rehmat, Ayah, Rahma, Hiba, Nusaybah, Safaa, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Zeenat
Zinat
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, “Zeenat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zeenat, updated 20 October 2026.