Known in the languages Urdu and Arabic, Zainab first appeared in the US during the 1950s. Its meaning is not clear, it is possibly derived from the Arabic ‘zayn’ for ‘beauty’.
Zainab is a female first name.
The name Zainab isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Zainab ranks 863. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Zainab. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zainab.
Known in the languages Urdu and Arabic, Zainab first appeared in the US during the 1950s. Its meaning is not clear, it is possibly derived from the Arabic ‘zayn’ for ‘beauty’.
Zainab is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zainab cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #812 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zainab, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zainab seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zainab was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
297 babies were named Zainab in 2022 - that's 1 in 499,097 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Zainab ranked 826 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Zainab are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Zainab in 24 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Zainab live in New York – here, one in 11,387 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 31,203 will turn around if you call her first name Zainab.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Zainab is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zainab and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zainab, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Butterfly
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zainab
Zainab
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
I
N
A
B
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
I
N
A
B
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zainab sounds like this:
