Zineb
From a Hebrew root meaning "fragrant flower," said ZHEE-nep in Polish. Only 31 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given it this century, so most Poles have never met one.
Zineb Pronunciation
Zineb is pronounced ZHEE-nep (/ˈʑinɛp/).
What Zineb means
Where Zineb comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zineb reaches Polish registers as an Arabic name whose roots the sources set in Hebrew. The short meaning given is fragrant flower. In Arabic tradition, zaynab named a sweet-smelling flowering plant, and the name took the shape Zineb across the Maghreb. Morocco and Algeria still favour this spelling.
The best documented bearer is Zaynab bint Muhammad, eldest daughter of the Prophet, who lived in seventh-century Arabia. Zineb is the same name in North African dress. Some readers split it into zayn, adornment, and ab, father, which is how Polish glosses it as ozdoba ojca. That reading came later. It sits beside the plainer sense of piękno, beauty.
A girl named Zineb in a Kraków class register holds a name older than the alphabet it is written in. The origin is filed as Hebrew, the flower is Arabic, and the meaning stays fragrant.
How many people are named Zineb
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Zineb. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7414 among female names.
Zineb as a middle name
Zineb is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4505th, between Zhasmin (4) and Zippora (4).
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#4503 Zenonia4
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#4504 Zhasmin4
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#4505 Zineb4
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#4506 Zippora4
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#4507 Zorka4