Entry № 11917 · Arabic origin

Zaynab Zaynab — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZAY-nab /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Fragrant tree (Prophets daughter + Sayyida Zaynab)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "fragrant tree (prophets daughter + sayyida zaynab)".

Zaynab is from the Arabic Zaynab.

Fragrant tree (Prophets daughter + Sayyida Zaynab) — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

زينب

Transliteration: Zaynab
Pronunciation: / ˈzeɪ.næb /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Zaynab stands.

Zaynab does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Zaynabs before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali

Granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad + daughter of Ali + Fatima al-Zahra + witnessed Karbala 680 + Damascus sermon + Shia pilgrimage Damascus + Cairo

Islamic tradition

Names connected to Zaynab.

Numerology

The number behind Zaynab.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zaynab reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.