Zaina
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaina is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: do germânico zainia; fabricante e vendedor de sacolas de pele ou rústicas.
- TZTanzania1 in 6.4K◐
- MAMorocco1 in 10K
- FRFrance1 in 76K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- Sources
- 149 ●
- 1 in 76K ◐
across 7 countries
16K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
do germânico zainia; fabricante e vendedor de sacolas de pele ou rústicas
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,286 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Zaina | 145 |
| TZ Tanzania | #409 | 2,076 | 577 rec. | — | — | Zaina | 17 |
| MA Morocco | #907 | 1,464 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Zaina | 37 |
| FR France | — | 890 | 4.8K rec. | 1 in 76K | 890 | Zaina | 149 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 826 | 331 rec. | — | — | Zaina | 18 |
| IN India | — | 740 | 733 rec. | — | 4 | Zaina | 32 |
| SY Syria | — | 717 | 871 rec. | — | — | Zaina | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 711 | 151 rec. | — | 6 | Zaina | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 384 | 81 rec. | — | — | Zaina | 53 |
| KW Kuwait | #439 | 381 | 219 rec. | — | — | Zaina | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 369 | 213 rec. | — | 3 | Zaina | 58 |
| AU Australia | — | 367 | 399 rec. | — | 1 | Zaina | 48 |
Roughly 2.3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 146K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French11K24%
- Swahili9.8K22%
- English5.2K12%
- Arabic4.1K9%
- Portuguese3.6K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 10,592 | 24% |
| Swahili | 9,761 | 22% |
| English | 5,163 | 12% |
| Arabic | 4,086 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 3,578 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Zaina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, adornment; elegant/beautiful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, beautiful, elegant
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Beautiful daughter.
as a nameThe African book of names
beautiful
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Italian, feminine singular of zaino
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 17 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 59 |
| 1995 | 38 |
| 1996 | 34 |
| 1997 | 23 |
| 1998 | 29 |
| 1999 | 33 |
| 2000 | 42 |
| 2001 | 48 |
| 2002 | 45 |
| 2003 | 67 |
| 2004 | 62 |
| 2005 | 92 |
| 2006 | 75 |
| 2007 | 76 |
| 2008 | 125 |
| 2009 | 109 |
| 2010 | 105 |
| 2011 | 114 |
| 2012 | 96 |
| 2013 | 108 |
| 2014 | 121 |
| 2015 | 110 |
| 2016 | 151 |
| 2017 | 143 |
| 2018 | 155 |
| 2019 | 126 |
| 2020 | 132 |
| 2021 | 128 |
| 2022 | 136 |
| 2023 | 136 |
| 2024 | 148 |
| 2025 | 170 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1982–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saina Erhaimb. 1985SYnot in their usual nameSyrian journalist
- Zaina Nandedeb. 2003UGUgandan footballer
- Zaina KouyatéGNGuinean physician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 68 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,853 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 655 | #1,827 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 243 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 242 | #22,532 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 241 | #22,137 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 187 | #9,500 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 174 | #5,291 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 170 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 154 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 150 | #5,074 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 124 | #7,362 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 89 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 253 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zaina?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Zaina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zaina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.3 thousand people bear Zaina in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zaina.
- How common is Zaina compared with other names?
- In Mayotte, Zaina is the 109th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
- Is Zaina a male or female name?
- Zaina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Zaina mean?
- Recorded meaning: do germânico zainia; fabricante e vendedor de sacolas de pele ou rústicas
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zaina” — the 109th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.