Zaynab is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning “a flower in the desert.” In 2024 it was given to 138 girls in the United States.
Zaynab belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “a flower in the desert” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Zaynab first appears in Social Security records in 1982. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1510 in 2023, and in 2024 138 babies received the name — 2,364 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Zaynab means “a flower in the desert” in its Arabic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Zaynab is a girl name. In 2024, 138 babies received the name in the US.
Zaynab comes from the Muslim & Arabic tradition.
Zaynab first appears in US records in 1982. Its best-ever ranking was #1510 in 2023, and 138 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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