Zeineb
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zeineb is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tunisia, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Zaynab.
- TNTunisia1 in 735◐
- SESweden1 in 86K
- MAMorocco1 in 98K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈282 ●
- Sources
- 50 ●
- 1 in 86K ◐
across 8 countries
2.9K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Alternative form of Zaynab.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | #47 | 5,416 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1.3K | Zeineb | 50 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 494 rec. | — | 5 | Zeineb | 44 |
| MA Morocco | — | 157 | 127 rec. | — | — | Zeineb | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | 127 | 113 rec. | — | 1 | Zeineb | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 118 | 285 rec. | 1 in 86K | 118 | Zeineb | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | 108 | 48 rec. | — | — | Zeineb | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 100 | 34 rec. | — | 5 | Zeineb | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 92△ | 38 rec. | 1 in 544K | 92 | Zeineb | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 67 | 33 rec. | — | — | Zeineb | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | 58 | 59 rec. | — | — | Zeineb | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 54 | 57 rec. | — | — | Zeineb | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 51 | 61 rec. | — | listed | Zeineb | 13 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French4.6K33%
- Arabic4.3K31%
- English2.5K18%
- Ukrainian5564%
- Spanish3292%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 4,613 | 33% |
| Arabic | 4,305 | 31% |
| English | 2,539 | 18% |
| Ukrainian | 556 | 4% |
| Spanish | 329 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 27 |
| 2000 | 33 |
| 2001 | 36 |
| 2002 | 37 |
| 2003 | 41 |
| 2004 | 42 |
| 2005 | 50 |
| 2006 | 56 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2008 | 67 |
| 2009 | 67 |
| 2010 | 70 |
| 2011 | 69 |
| 2012 | 66 |
| 2013 | 65 |
| 2014 | 67 |
| 2015 | 68 |
| 2016 | 75 |
| 2017 | 80 |
| 2018 | 90 |
| 2019 | 92 |
| 2020 | 92 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zaynab bint Maz'unb. 501SAnot in their usual nameWife of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Zaynab bint Khuzaymab. 595SAnot in their usual nameMuhammad's fifth wife (c. 596–625)
- Zainab bint Muhammadb. 599SAnot in their usual nameEldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Zaynab bint al-Kamalb. 1248SYnot in their usual namehadith scholar and teacher from Damascus
- Zaynab Fawwazb. 1844LBnot in their usual namewomen's rights activist and writer
- Zaynab Habashb. 1943PSnot in their usual namePalestinian poet
- Zaynab Bireciklib. 1946SYnot in their usual nameSyrian literary academic
- Zeineb Benzinab. 1950TNTunisian historian, epigraphist and archaeologist
- Zeynab Habibb. 1975BJnot in their usual nameBeninese singer of world music
- Zeineb Jammehb. 1977GMFirst Lady of The Gambia
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2010 | 1.9K | #8 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2020 | 1.6K | #8 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2021 | 1.3K | #8 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 184 | #5,073 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 118 | #7,596 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 92 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 92 | #16,912 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 75 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 70 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 70 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zeineb?
- We estimate roughly 282 people bear Zeineb (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zeineb have the most bearers?
- Zeineb is most frequently recorded in Tunisia, where it is most often spelled zeineb.
- How common is Zeineb compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Zeineb is the 47th most common given name of 13,955 given names recorded there.
- Is Zeineb a male or female name?
- Zeineb 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 Zeineb mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Zaynab.
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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, “Zeineb” — the 47th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.