Amenah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-MEE-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Amenah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “trustworthy, secure”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Amenah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ameena, itself a spelling of Amina
“trustworthy, secure”
Amina bint Wahb was the mother of the Prophet Muhammad.
Meaning borrowed from Ameena.
Is Amenah a girl's or a boy's name?
Amenah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Amenah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 6 girls.
Amenah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Amenah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Amenah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
Half of all the girls named Amenah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 125 girls in the US were given Amenah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,443, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Amenah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Names like Amenah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Aaminah, Nusaybah, Sumayyah, Safa, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Zainab, Aakifah, Aafiyah, Abeeha, Farah
Other spellings of Amenah
Names related to 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, “Amenah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amenah, updated 20 October 2026.