Zaynah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zaynah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #480 in 2002, and it stood at #826 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#480highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#750
1998	#649
1999	#580
2000	#601
2001	#570
2002	#480
2003	#494
2004	#655
2005	#541
2006	#558
2007	#549
2008	#573
2009	#614
2010	#634
2011	#583
2012	#825
2013	#733
2014	#681
2015	#656
2016	#768
2017	#870
2018	#843
2019	#724
2020	#1200
2021	#860
2022	#775
2023	#694
2024	#826

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.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 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: #480 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #826 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Zaynah 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 Zaynah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	135	4 of 10	34
2000sbusiest	584	10 of 10	58
2010s	541	10 of 10	54
2020s	212	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 58 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 26, from 53 to 27.

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

Zaynah appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #480 in England and Wales in 2002.

Zaynah'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	#826	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#694	52	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#775	47	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1200	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#724	53	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#843	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#768	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#656	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#681	58	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#733	54	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#583	69	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#634	60	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#614	61	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#573	66	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#549	67	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#558	63	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#541	62	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#655	45	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#494	65	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#480	63	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#570	48	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#601	44	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#580	47	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#649	38	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #480, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#826position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
69births registered in its largest year, 201150 to 99 births →

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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Saqib · #481, 27y
Shivam · #477, 29y
Subhaan · #477, 29y
Mahima · #485, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Kabir · #479, 30y
Saqib · #481, 27y
Matty · #478, 26y
Murphy · #478, 27y

Zaynah was ranked #480 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. 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.

Zaynah 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 Zaynah without appearing here.

Zaynah moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1200 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #860 and #2499.
Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1031 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #750 and #1450.
Anne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1200 and #992 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #860 and #1505.
Sandra Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1200 and #1200 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #860 and #1505.

Moved ahead of Zaynah

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #724 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1200 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #583 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #825 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #583 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #825 and #294.
Astrid Compare
In 2011 they stood at #583 and #594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #825 and #607.

Moved the opposite way to Zaynah

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynah went from #580 to #826 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynah went from #580 to #826 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynah went from #570 to #826 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynah went from #1031 to #583 while Martine went from #2350 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Zaynah

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaynah went from #480 to #826 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #480 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zaynah

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Zaynah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Zaynah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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