Zeina
Hebrew at root, where it carries the sense of "beauty". In Poland it stays rare: only about 21 women hold it, all of them, and no newborn has been recorded this century.
Zeina Pronunciation
Zeina is pronounced ze-EE-nah (/zɛˈina/).
What Zeina means
Where Zeina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zeina comes from a Hebrew root. Its meaning, beauty, settled on the name through Arabic.
In Arabic the word zīna names adornment, the care that makes a thing pleasant to look at. There the reading of beauty, in Polish piękno, took hold. The Hebrew root sits underneath, older and plainer.
Because the origin is Hebrew, beauty came to the name as a later gift. Names take on meanings the way coats take on colour. Zeina wears beauty because Arabic dressed it so.
Polish keeps the name spare. No Zeinka, no diminutive, no masculine twin. It stands as five letters and nothing else. On a class register it lands among more familiar names, and a teacher reads it once, as piękno turned into a name.
How many people are named Zeina
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Zeina. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9792 among female names.
Zeina as a middle name
Zeina is a first name for 21 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4499th, between Zanele (4) and Zeinab (4).
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#4497 Zahrah4
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#4498 Zanele4
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#4499 Zeina4
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#4500 Zeinab4
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#4501 Zelal4