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Zaynab (name)

Arabic female given name From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Zaynab, also spelled as Zainab, Zaenab, Zayneb, Zeinab, Zenab, Zineb, Zinab, Zynab, Zaineb, Zeynab and Zeynep. (Arabic: زينب, [ˈzeːnæb, ˈziːnæb, ˈzajnab]) is an Arabic female given name meaning "a flower in the desert".[citation needed]

Zaynab is the name of a daughter and a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and two of his wives: Zaynab bint Jahsh and Zaynab bint Khuzayma.

In 2021, the Chicago Tribune found that Zeinab was the most popular name for girls among names unusually frequent in Michigan, "17.2 times more common than nationwide."[1]

Bosnian forms of the name are "Zeineb", "Zejneb" and "Zejneba", the Somali form of the name is Seynab, and the Turkish form is Zeynep.

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