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Aaminah

#7,132 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Amina

Aaminah has been given to 532 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,132 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Aaminah, 2025

1 in 221,000

Aaminah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aaminah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Amina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aaminah means

Aaminah is a alternate transcription of Amina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aaminah → Amina → أَمِينَة. The family’s meaning is “reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements جِبْرِيل.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 532 girls were recorded with the name Aaminah between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,649 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,079 in 2020 to #7,132 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,649 in 2015 to #7,132 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Aaminah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,132
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aaminah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aaminah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aaminahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aaminah was born before 2014 — so the typical Aaminah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
532
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (264).

Is Aaminah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,835
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,053
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,483
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2015 (42)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,649
2015

Spellings of Aaminah

Aaminah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 50.3% against Aaminah's 0.24%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aaminah is used

Across 1910–2025, Aaminah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,331,266 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aaminah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aaminah around the world

Where Aaminah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #596
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • France
    2008–2008
    #6,268
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aaminah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,132
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,053
Best rank ever
#3,649
2015
Peak year
2015
42 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
532
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Aaminah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aaminah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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