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Zainab name meaning

“a beautiful, fragrant tree”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
Z
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 11.8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s11.8%
1950s9.9%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
3

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Zainab

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: ZMeaning natureArabic origin

Zainab is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'a beautiful, fragrant tree'.

What does Zainab mean?

A beautiful, fragrant tree

In Malay: pokok yang cantik dan harum

#Nature

Sources (4)

About the name Zainab

Zainab is the Arabic name Zaynab (زينب), borne by several women in the family of the Prophet Muhammad. The classical Arabic dictionary Lisān al-ʿArab records zaynab as a beautiful, fragrant tree and says the woman's name was taken from it; other explanations have also been proposed. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 5,887 baby girls. Other spellings are Zaenab and Zaynab.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesZai-nab
First letterMalay Names starting with Z
Arabic scriptزينب

Zainab in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 3,052 · 11.8%
1950s
Girl: 5,887 · 9.9%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Zainab as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Zainab

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: زينب · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Behind the Name: Zaynab · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Lisān al-ʿArab: زنب · arabiclexicon.hawramani.com · meaning
  4. Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names: زينب · arabiclexicon.hawramani.com · meaning

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