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Aminah

#1,160 in 2025Girls' name

Reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible, through Amina

Aminah has been given to 5,536 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,160 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 306 recorded.

Babies named Aminah, 2025

1 in 16,600

Aminah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aminah: meaning, origin, and history

Reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible, through Amina

Arabic

What Aminah means

Aminah belongs to the name family reached through Aminah → Amina → أَمِينَة. Its meaning is “reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aminah is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amina and أَمِينَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,536 girls were recorded with the name Aminah between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 306 in 2017; its best national rank was #887 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,078 in 2020 to #1,160 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #906 in 2015 to #1,160 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aminah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,600
200 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,040
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,160
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,491 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aminah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,491 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aminah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aminahs were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,536
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (2,109).

Is Aminah 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
−156
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−82
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−254
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.4%
Peak was 2017 (306)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#887
2017

Spellings of Aminah

Aminah is not the most common spelling — Aliyah is, with 11.6% against Aminah's 1.3%.

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 Aminah is used

Across 2016–2025, Aminah was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 5,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

346 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 2,174
  2. 2Maryland1 in 2,703
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,125
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 3,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 3,448
  6. 6New York1 in 3,846
  7. 7Virginia1 in 4,167
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 4,545

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.

Aminah around the world

Where Aminah 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
    #490
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #3,736
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aminah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aminah. Linked forms have their own page here.

AminaAaminah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aminah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,160
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 82
Best rank ever
#887
2017
Peak year
2017
306 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,536
Count in 2025
200

Names similar to Aminah

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

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Names with a curve like Aminah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aminah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aminah

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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