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The first name 
Zeina

Zeina is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Zeina meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zeina is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Zeina. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zeina is #3,281 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zeina.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zeina

Zeina -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Zeina did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zeina seemed to be more popular than ever in 2019. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,409, 64 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zeina, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Zeina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Zeina in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Zeina a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,818 - with a total of 51 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Zeina -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Zeina in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 248 women and girls named Zeina, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 248 women and girls named Zeina live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Zeina. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Zeina lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Zeina and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Zeina relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 179,674 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Zeina.

Zeina has 5 letters 
and begins with a Z

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 five letters, the name Zeina is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

Other names with 
Z, e, i, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Zeina – Z, e, i, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Zanie or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zeina

If your name is Zeina 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...

This is how you spell the name Zeina

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zeina, you can simply say:

Zebra

Elephant

Igloo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Zeina is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zeina in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zeina

Zeina

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zeina

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zeina is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
E
I
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Zeina

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
E
I
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Zeina sounds like this: