Aaminah — #5343 US girls' name
517 babies named Aaminah in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 70% of names given to girls today.
51% of everyone ever named Aaminah was born in this single decade.
42 babies were named Aaminah in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aaminah
The Social Security Administration has registered 517 babies named Aaminah between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aaminah currently holds the #5343 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 42 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aaminah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 264 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Aaminah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Aaminah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aaminah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 517 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aaminah at a glance
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Current rank
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Aaminah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1991
- Peak year (2015)
- 42
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
Currently ranks #5343 among girls.
517 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 42 births in a single year.
Aaminah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 264 births that decade — 51% of Aaminah's all-time total
Aaminah decade highlights
- Peak decade 264 births
- Runner-up 108 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aaminah's strongest decade
264 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Aaminah by state
Where Aaminah concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 11 | 2.1% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 7 | 1.4% |
11 of 517 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.1% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.