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Aminata

#2,441 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Amina

Aminata has been given to 2,314 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,441 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Aminata, 2025

1 in 45,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aminata: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aminata means

Aminata is a form of Amina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aminata → 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, 2,314 girls were recorded with the name Aminata between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,996 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,551 in 2020 to #2,441 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,996 in 2015 to #2,441 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 Aminata?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 45,400
73 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,441
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aminata 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aminata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aminatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aminata was born before 2011 — so the typical Aminata is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,314
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (801).

Is Aminata 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
−134
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+110
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−445
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2015 (99)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,996
2015

Spellings of Aminata

Aminata is not the most common spelling — Amina is, with 62.4% against Aminata's 7.5%.

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 Aminata is used

Across 2016–2025, Aminata was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 10,762 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,448
  2. 2Ohio1 in 5,556
  3. 3Maryland1 in 7,143
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Aminata around the world

Where Aminata 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
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1955–2025
    #126
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Aminata

People whose public names include Aminata, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aminata in other languages

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

AminaAmintaAramintaMinata

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

Aminata by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,441
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 110
Best rank ever
#1,996
2015
Peak year
2015
99 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,314
Count in 2025
73

Names similar to Aminata

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

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Names with a curve like Aminata

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

ZaydaEternitySinaiAvigailKeiryJanellyFatoumataKiyahIllianaKylerHibaSumaya

Sibling names for Aminata

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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