Amaanah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MAA-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,247 for girls
Amaanah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “trust; something held in trust”. In 2025 it ranked 1,247th for girls in the UK (27 babies).
What does Amaanah mean?
Arabic: from Arabic amana
“trust; something held in trust”
In Islam, amanah is the moral duty of honesty and of faithfully keeping what is entrusted to you.
Is Amaanah a girl's or a boy's name?
Amaanah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amaanah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,247th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 10,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 77% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were named Amaanah, making it the 1,247th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.
2025 had the most girls named Amaanah of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Amaanah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 90 girls in the UK were given Amaanah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #483, up from #1,247 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,197th in England and Wales.
Amaanah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #1,247 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 19 | #1,666 |
| 2022 | 24 | #1,406 |
| 2021 | 21 | #1,553 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 15 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 26 | #1,356 |
| 2016 | 13 | #2,224 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
Names like Amaanah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Ayah, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Aafiyah, Aaminah, Safa, Ruqayyah, Amira, Zainab, Azeemah, Umaymah
Other spellings of Amaanah
Amanah, Amaana
Names related to Amaanah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Amaanah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amaanah, updated 20 October 2026.