Name meaning & stats
Zainab
Zainab means “a flower in the desert”. 7,326 US babies since 1940, peak 2025.
What it means
“a flower in the desert”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2025
7,326 US babies were named Zainab between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Zainab (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 72% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2025)