Zaina

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zaina: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zaina: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #416 in 2010, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#416highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#2411
1998	#1823
1999	#1393
2000	#782
2001	#627
2002	#702
2003	#699
2004	#655
2005	#583
2006	#586
2007	#487
2008	#458
2009	#508
2010	#416
2011	#449
2012	#556
2013	#802
2014	#731
2015	#745
2016	#1112
2017	#797
2018	#843
2019	#806
2020	#928
2021	#1102
2022	#1023
2023	#921
2024	#776

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1023 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #416 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Zaina appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,376 births with the name.

Zaina across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zaina's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#416 (2010)	#776 (2024)	29 of 29	1,376 (1996–2024)	105 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	4 of 16	13 (2010–2025)	4 (2025)

Zaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zaina in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	4 of 10	9
2000s	555	10 of 10	56
2010sbusiest	599	10 of 10	60
2020s	188	5 of 10	38

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 60 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 28, from 76 to 48.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zaina appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #416 in England and Wales in 2010.

Zaina's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#921	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1023	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1102	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#928	38	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#806	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#797	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#745	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#802	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#556	76	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#449	94	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#416	105	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#508	79	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#458	90	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#586	58	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#583	56	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#655	45	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#699	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#627	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #416, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 105 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 14 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zain · #137, 30y
Zain-Ul-Abideen · #1821, 17y
Zainab · #125, 56y
Zainah · #1815, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Micaela · #417, 30y
Tommy-Lee · #415, 30y
Oreoluwa · #414, 29y
Tobin · #414, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jaylen · #416, 25y
Kasim · #416, 29y
Mikaeel · #416, 25y
Zeke · #416, 27y

Zaina was ranked #416 in England and Wales · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zaina and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zaina without appearing here.

Zaina moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1393 and #3900.
Freddie Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2411 and #2411 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #782 and #3247.
Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2350 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1823 and #3848.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2411 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Zaina

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #806 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #928 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #745 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1112 and #768.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #449 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #556 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #449 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #556 and #294.

Moved the opposite way to Zaina

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zaina

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaina went from #2350 to #776 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #416 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zaina

Zaina at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zaina across 2 official records

Zaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zaina across 2 official records

Zaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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