Amina
- Pronunciation
- [A-mi-na]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Somali And Muslim Female Name Meaning "Trustful, Honest" And Referring To Muhammed's Mother. This Name Is Popular With The Hausa Of West Africa.
- Origin
- African
About the Name Amina
Amina descends from the Arabic Āmina meaning "trustworthy," "honest," or "safe." The name's overwhelming religious anchor is Aminah bint Wahb (c. 549–577 CE), the mother of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam. Her brief life (she died when Muhammad was about six years old) has made her name one of the most-revered female names across Muslim-majority countries for over a millennium.
The name has been continuously used across Arabic, Somali, and broader Muslim naming traditions for centuries. The name is also popular in West African naming, particularly among the Hausa and Fulani peoples. Notable bearers include Tanzanian-American singer Amina Claudine Myers; contemporary American activist Amina Iro; and the fictional Princess Amina of Disney's Aladdin sequels.
The contemporary American Amina surge is partly through Muslim-American immigration and partly through the broader American taste for short, multi-cultural girls' names. Amina climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2000 to the US top 300 girls' rank by 2018 and the top 300 since. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the Islamic-religious-historical pedigree of the Prophet's mother, the in-built positive meaning of "trustworthy/honest," and the soft three-syllable structure with vowel-rich rhythm. The name reads as both classical-religious and contemporary American. Common nicknames Mina (back-end shortening, a popular standalone name on its own), Ami, and the rare Nan each carry distinct registers; international forms include Aminah (alternate Arabic spelling), Amine (French/Turkish phonetic), and the original Arabic Āmina.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Amina
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Amina by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2017 with 1,179 girls named Amina (girl rank #271 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #315 for girls (970 US births). That's 44 places below its 2017 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Amina Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Amina the strongest states are District of Columbia, New York, Delaware.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | #147 | 60 |
| 2 | New York | #147 | 1,016 |
| 3 | Delaware | #160 | 17 |
| 4 | Illinois | #221 | 476 |
| 5 | Ohio | #222 | 477 |
| 6 | Michigan | #223 | 370 |
| 7 | Connecticut | #233 | 121 |
| 8 | Maryland | #233 | 237 |
| 9 | Minnesota | #242 | 214 |
| 10 | Georgia | #247 | 397 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Amina in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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