Zaynab

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zaynab: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #271 in 2016, and it stood at #301 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#271highest 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	#753
1997	#604
1998	#462
1999	#449
2000	#391
2001	#352
2002	#333
2003	#310
2004	#362
2005	#332
2006	#288
2007	#310
2008	#298
2009	#286
2010	#358
2011	#368
2012	#332
2013	#313
2014	#283
2015	#283
2016	#271
2017	#277
2018	#271
2019	#320
2020	#344
2021	#348
2022	#351
2023	#297
2024	#301

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 2024: #301 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #753 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: #271 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #301 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zaynab 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 3,722 births with the name.

Zaynab 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.

Zaynab'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	#753 (1996)	#271 (2016)	#301 (2024)	29 of 29	3,722 (1996–2024)	184 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#629 (2018)	#736 (2024)	5 of 16	18 (2009–2024)	5 (2018)

Zaynab 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 Zaynab in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	201	4 of 10	50
2000s	1,270	10 of 10	127
2010sbusiest	1,576	10 of 10	158
2020s	675	5 of 10	135

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 158 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births fell by 39, from 166 to 127.

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

Zaynab 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in England and Wales in 2018.

Zaynab'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	#301	143	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#297	147	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#351	122	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#348	133	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#344	130	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#320	147	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#271	177	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#277	177	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#271	184	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#283	171	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#283	169	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#313	150	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#332	146	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#368	128	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#358	127	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#286	166	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#298	157	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#310	149	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#288	159	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#332	121	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#362	105	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#310	127	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#333	108	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#352	96	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#391	82	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#449	66	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#462	63	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#753	30	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #271, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 184 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 28 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.

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Zayne · #334, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Aedan · #271, 29y
Alister · #271, 28y
Amy-Leigh · #271, 24y
Jena · #271, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aedan · #271, 29y
Alister · #271, 28y
Amy-Leigh · #271, 24y
Benn · #271, 20y

Zaynab was ranked #271 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. 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.

Zaynab 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 Zaynab without appearing here.

Zaynab moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #391 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #352 and #871.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #753 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #604 and #1015.
Brodie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #604 and #565 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #462 and #846.
Sofie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #753 and #703 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #604 and #946.

Moved ahead of Zaynab

Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #310 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #362 and #155.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #358 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #368 and #261.
Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #271 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #320 and #218.
Willow Compare
In 2000 they stood at #391 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #352 and #251.

Moved the opposite way to Zaynab

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zaynab

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynab went from #753 to #301 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #271 in England and Wales in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zaynab

Zaynab at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zaynab across 2 official records

Zaynab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zaynab at a glance

Zaynab across 2 official records

Zaynab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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