Zaynab (name)

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.

Zainab Abbas, Pakistani sports presenter
Zaynab al-Awadiya, medieval physician
Zainab Ahmad, American prosecutor
Zainab Ahmed, Nigerian politician
Zainab bint Muhammad, daughter of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid and Muhammad. Mother of Umamah wife of Ali Ibn Abi Talib.
Zaynab bint Ali, daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the sister of Husayn ibn Ali, and granddaughter of Muhammad
Zaynab bint Khuzayma, a wife of Muhammad
Zaynab bint Jahsh, a wife of Muhammad
Zaynab Dosso, Italian sprinter
Zeinab Sade Elhawary, American politician and community organizer
Zeinab Soleimani, manager of the Qasem Soleimani Foundation International, daughter of Qasem Soleimani
Zainab Chottani
Zainab Cobbold, Anglo-Scot convert to Islam
Zainab Fasiki
Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish Iranian, often described as a political activist
Zainab Johnson, an American actress and comedian
Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyat, an influential figure in the Almoravid movement
Zeinab Badawi, Sudanese-British television and radio journalist for the BBC
Zainab Khawla (born 1969), Syrian politician
Zainab al-Khawaja, Bahraini human rights activist
Zainab Tari (a queen of Sindh)
Zainab Masood, a character in the British TV soap opera EastEnders
Zainab Biisheva (1908–1996), Bashkir poet and writer
Zeynab bint Al-Harith, Jewish woman who poisoned Muhammad
Zainab Salbi (b. 1969), American activist

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