Fun Facts About the Name Aaminah
- 532 babies named Aaminah: U.S. records list 532 babies given the name Aaminah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aaminah Mean?
Aaminah is an Arabic female name built on the root ʾ-m-n (أ م ن), which carries the linked ideas of safety, security, and trust. It is the feminine counterpart of Amīn, "trustworthy, faithful," and is usually glossed as "trustworthy," "faithful," or "safe and secure." The same root produces amān (safety, protection), īmān (faith, belief), and amīn (trusted, reliable).
Two closely related Arabic forms lie behind the name, and English transliteration usually makes them look identical. Āminah (آمنة) is the feminine participle of amina, "to be safe, to feel secure," and means "one who is safe or secure." Amīnah (أمينة) is the feminine of amīn and means "trustworthy, faithful." The two differ only in the length of the first vowel, a distinction that spellings like Amina, Aminah, Aamina, and Aaminah do not normally show. Because both come from the same root, the meanings overlap rather than compete.
Aaminah Name History & Origins
The name is best known from Āminah bint Wahb, the mother of the Prophet Muhammad. She belonged to the Banu Zuhrah clan of the Quraysh in Mecca, and the traditional Islamic biographical accounts (sīra) report that she died while Muhammad was still a young child, in the second half of the sixth century. Her place in that history is the main reason the name has been carried by Muslim families ever since.
The masculine form appears in the same setting: al-Amīn, "the trustworthy," was a byname attached to Muhammad before he began preaching, according to those same traditional accounts. As Islam spread and Arabic became a language of religion and learning far beyond Arabia, the name took local shapes - Emine in Turkish, Amina in North Africa and the Balkans, and Aamina or Amina in Persian-, Urdu-, and other South Asian settings. A separate West African bearer is the sixteenth-century ruler of the Hausa state of Zazzau, remembered in Hausa tradition as Queen Amina.
English spellings that begin with a doubled a, as in Aaminah, are a transliteration convention: the pair of vowels marks the long Arabic ā rather than two separate sounds. The same long vowel appears as a single a in the common spellings Amina and Aminah.
How Popular is the Name Aaminah?
Aaminah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #3,650 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,134 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #5,283 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #7,240 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #7,280 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2021 | #7,247 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #6,078 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2018 | #4,143 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2017 | #4,146 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2013 | #5,833 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #6,338 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #6,563 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #9,380 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #8,110 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2007 | #8,518 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #11,418 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #10,129 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2001 | #12,060 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #9,875 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #10,350 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1998 | #11,139 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #9,582 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #9,555 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #10,570 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #13,441 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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