Maimunah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- my-MOO-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Maimunah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “blessed, fortunate”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Maimunah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Maimuna, itself a spelling of Maymuna
“blessed, fortunate”
Maymuna bint al-Harith was one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
Meaning borrowed from Maimuna.
Is Maimunah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maimunah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maimunah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Maimunah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 6 girls.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Maimunah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Maimunah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
Names like Maimunah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Ayah Aaliyah Safa Ruqayyah Musfirah Sumayyah Abeeha Aafiyah Zainab Umaymah Hiba
Other spellings of Maimunah
Names related to Maimunah
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) 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, “Maimunah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maimunah, updated 20 October 2026.