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Baby name
Zainab
Girl
Origin of the name
Zainab is a spelling of Zaynab, the name of a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Rising name
7,326births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 807rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Zainab are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Zainab is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Zainab is most common in New York (3.2 times), Michigan (2.8) and New Jersey (2.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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