Zinedine

Where Zinedine comes from

Borrowed from Arabic زين الدين, from زين + الدين, from دين + ال (al-). Transliteration of Arabic زين الدين. Literally, “beauty of the faith”. Variant of Zayn ad-Din.
— Wiktionary's entry for Zinedine
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2005
    First appearance
    #9,115 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2006
    Peak, #4,865
    18 babies named Zinedine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Zayn ad-Din
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.