Zeinab
Fewer than 70 women in Poland carry it, and most people here have never met one. The name comes from Hebrew, meaning "father's adornment", and reached Poland through Arabic use.
Zeinab Pronunciation
Zeinab is pronounced ze-EE-nahp (/zɛˈinap/).
What Zeinab means
Where Zeinab comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zeinab arrives in Polish through Arabic, while its deeper root is Hebrew. The meaning offered here, "father's adornment," frames the name as an ornament a family wears. That sense sits beside another one entirely.
In Arabic, Zaynab also names a fragrant flowering tree, and Polish keeps that picture in "pachnące drzewo." The two readings do not compete. One name can hold a plant and a compliment together.
One bearer fixes the name in the record. Zaynab bint Ali, granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, spoke publicly after the battle of Karbala in 680. Girls named Zeinab today share that spelling with her, and the form stays whole, without a Polish diminutive. The name still keeps its two meanings, father's adornment and pachnące drzewo, the fragrant tree.
How many people are named Zeinab
1 in 341573 women in Poland is named Zeinab. 66 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4499 among female names.
Zeinab as a middle name
Zeinab is a first name for 66 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4500th, between Zeina (4) and Zelal (4).
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#4498 Zanele4
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#4499 Zeina4
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#4500 Zeinab4
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#4501 Zelal4
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#4502 Zenith4