Aaminah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AA-mee-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #636 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Aaminah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “trustworthy, secure”. In 2025 it ranked 636th for girls in the UK (65 babies) and 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Aaminah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Amina
“trustworthy, secure”
Amina bint Wahb was the mother of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Aaminah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aaminah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 65 girls in the UK and 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aaminah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 636th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 65 about 1 in 4,300 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 65 girls in the UK were named Aaminah, making it the 636th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 550th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 138 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aaminah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 104 girls in the UK were given Aaminah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #636 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 596th in England and Wales.
Aaminah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #636 |
| 2024 | 69 | #612 |
| 2023 | 74 | #562 |
| 2022 | 65 | #634 |
| 2021 | 70 | #602 |
| 2020 | 80 | #550 |
| 2019 | 80 | #558 |
| 2018 | 92 | #512 |
| 2017 | 119 | #410 |
| 2016 | 95 | #503 |
| 2015 | 133 | #384 |
| 2014 | 134 | #372 |
| 2013 | 138 | #370 |
| 2012 | 120 | #422 |
| 2011 | 125 | #403 |
| 2010 | 118 | #415 |
| 2009 | 97 | #466 |
| 2008 | 92 | #485 |
| 2007 | 84 | #503 |
| 2006 | 69 | #572 |
| 2005 | 62 | #581 |
| 2004 | 56 | #608 |
| 2003 | 67 | #521 |
| 2002 | 58 | #562 |
| 2001 | 35 | #768 |
| 2000 | 48 | #615 |
| 1999 | 36 | #722 |
| 1998 | 24 | #981 |
| 1997 | 25 | #940 |
| 1996 | 18 | #1,122 |
How popular is Aaminah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Aaminah, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
Half of all the girls named Aaminah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aaminah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,146 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,649 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,453 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Names like Aaminah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Zainab, Abeeha, Aafiyah, Safiya, Hafsa, Umaymah
Other spellings of Aaminah
Names related to Aaminah
Amina, Aminah, Amanah, Aamna, Aamani, Yaminah, Ahmina, Amenah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aaminah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aaminah, updated 20 October 2026.