Amanah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MAA-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #676 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Amanah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “trust; something entrusted”. In 2025 it ranked 676th for girls in the UK (60 babies) and 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Amanah mean?
Arabic
“trust; something entrusted”
In the Qur'an (33:72) the amanah is the trust offered to the heavens and earth, which humankind accepted.
Is Amanah a girl's or a boy's name?
Amanah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 60 girls in the UK and 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amanah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #676among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 60about 1 in 4,600 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 60 girls in the UK were named Amanah, making it the 676th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,286th.
2025 had the most girls named Amanah of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Amanah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 90 girls in the UK were given Amanah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #483, up from #676 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 642nd in England and Wales.
Amanah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #676 |
| 2024 | 52 | #785 |
| 2023 | 52 | #747 |
| 2022 | 25 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 28 | #1,264 |
| 2020 | 27 | #1,286 |
| 2019 | 34 | #1,085 |
| 2018 | 36 | #1,050 |
| 2017 | 45 | #916 |
| 2016 | 25 | #1,410 |
| 2015 | 36 | #1,062 |
| 2014 | 16 | #1,895 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 2012 | 16 | #1,914 |
| 2011 | 16 | #1,824 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 19 | #1,548 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Amanah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,115among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 84% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Amanah, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 2016.
2025 had the most girls named Amanah of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.
Half of all the girls named Amanah in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Amanah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
Names like Amanah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Aaminah Abeeha Aafiyah Aaliyah Ruqayyah Ayah Safa Sumayyah Aasiyah Umaymah Izzah
Other spellings of Amanah
Amaanah Amaana
Names related to Amanah
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, “Amanah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amanah, updated 20 October 2026.