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Zeina

Feminine · “beauty”

1973high 2024
#2410 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare74 girls in 2025

Zeina is beauty in Arabic — from zayn, adornment — and the root gives both the ornament and the loveliness itself.

How old is the name Zeina?

Zeina first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Zeina is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Zeina are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Zeina most popular?

Zeina peaked in 2025, reaching #2410 nationally. Today it ranks #2410, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Zeina

Zayn ties beauty to adornment in Arabic — what makes a thing lovely and the loveliness itself are one word. Zeina is the Levantine spelling and is standard across Lebanese and Syrian naming. It appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

beauty, adornment

From the Arabic zayn, 'adornment' or 'beauty', with a feminine ending. The same root gives Zayn, Zayan and Zaynab. The Arabic is ordinary vocabulary and the reading undisputed. The -ei- spelling reflects Levantine pronunciation.

How the name formed

  1. zayn
  2. Zeina

Related forms: زينة · Zaina · Zena

Pronouncing Zeina

ZAY-nah

Two syllables, stress on the first. Levantine Arabic says it the same way.

Nicknames for Zeina

Moderate

ZeinThe root, which is the Arabic word for adornment
ZeeThe front sound alone, and a short form with real use
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1973–202574370747419732025

US babies named Zeina per year from 1973 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#24101970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1973
Most girls named
202474 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2410reached in 2025
Change vs 2024
0.0%74 in 2025, from 74
Zeina sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2024, with 74 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Zeina in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • زينة in Arabic — transliteration
  • Zaina in English — spelling variant
  • Zena in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.

Zeinas among us

1,200

people named Zeina are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 21,720 born in 2025 was named Zeina

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Zeina

#2410
Zeina on the 2025 chart
#876
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zeina went to 74 girls in 2025, but Zeyna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 84, which makes it the 876th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,534 places above the chart.

  • Zeina74
  • Zeyna10

About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 21,720 for Zeina itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Janan test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zeina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janan climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janan's path sketches the road Zeina is walking now.

40%chance Zeina will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Zeina, aligned on its peakJanan· peak 1949not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+70 yrsJanan · #16677Zeina today
Zeina today is about where Janan stood in 1949 — in its own peak year. By 1964, Janan had settled around #3842.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Zeina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Zeina is headed

19732030

US babies named Zeina per year, 1973 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Zeina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 28% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Rising+28% by 2030projected around #2,112 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Zeina beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Zeina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Zeinathis name74#2410Ayda74#2410Laina74#2410Leana74#2410Sanvi74#2410

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That adornment and beauty are the same word is a genuinely good piece of Arabic.
  • The meaning is transparent and warm.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • Several transliterations are in circulation.
  • Zena and Xena are near-homophones with different origins.
  • It reads as specifically Levantine.

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Frequently asked

How many Zeinas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Zeina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Zeina?
Zeina is the most-used spelling in US records — 74 of the 84 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Zeyna.
How popular is the name Zeina in 2025?
Zeina ranks #2410 among US girl names in 2025, with 74 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Zeina?
About 1 in every 21,720 US girls born in 2025 was named Zeina — 74 in all.
Will my child share the name Zeina with classmates?
Zeina will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Zeina

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Ayda#2410 · Laina#2410 · Leana#2410 · Sanvi#2410 · Terra#2410 · Sullivan#2410 · Natalya#2410 · Layken#2410

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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology

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