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How popular is the name Zainab?
Births per year, rank history and how many Zainabs are alive today.
Zainab (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 128th in 2025 with 385 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2010, when 444 babies were given the name, the 128th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2020, with 380 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 170 in 2021 before climbing back to the 128th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 9,700 babies have been named Zainab in England and Wales since 1996.
The Zainab you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Zainabs born in England and Wales are between 8 and 22, and there are at least 10,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Zainab.
How many babies are named Zainab each year?
Where does Zainab rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Zainab most popular?
Zainab peaked in 2010, when 444 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Zainab?
At least 10,000 people named Zainab born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Zainab?
Most living Zainabs are between 8 and 22; the most common age is about 17.
Is Zainab becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.