Aminah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/amˈinah/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aminah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 24th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Spelling variant of Amina.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 183as Amina
- MAMorocco≈1 in 380as Amina
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aminah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #949 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Amina, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Amina in US United States, NG Nigeria, MA Morocco and 2 more and Амина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spelling variant of Amina.
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aminah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #119 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Amina | 89 |
| TZ Tanzania | #35 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | — | Amina | 34 |
| MA Morocco | #56 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | — | Amina | 113 |
| DZ Algeria | #24 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 522 | listed | Amina | 69 |
| RU Russia | #178 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | #74 | Амина | 162 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #66 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | 57K | Амина | 48 |
| US United States | — | 18,079as Amina | 1 in 18K | 18K | Amina | 344 |
| MY Malaysia | #80 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2.3K | Aminah | 55 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Princess Kamariah of Johorb. 1956not in their usual nameJohorean and Selangorean royal
- Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariahb. 1960MYQueen Consort of Pahang (2019 - present) and Queen Consort of Malaysia (2019 - 2024)
- Aminah Al Fakirb. 1974SESwedish actress
- Aminah Robinson FayekCanadian civil engineer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #4,955 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 200 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #4,955 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 1940 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aminah?
- A machine transcription gives /amˈinah/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Aminah mean, and where does it come from?
- Spelling variant of Amina. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Aminah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 346 thousand people named Amina in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Aminah a male or female name?
- Aminah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Aminah?
- In the etymology graph, Amina, Aminata and Aamina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Aminah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,079 people named Amina in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Aminah compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aminah is the 119th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aminah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aminahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aminah” — the 119th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.